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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Love is friendship set on fire.
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.