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In the material world, a foot is one thing, a ladder is another and wings still another. In the interior world, however, feet, ladders, and wings are the affections of a good will, with them, we walk, we climb, and we fly.Enarrationes in psalmos 38, 2.

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Truly, if you want what it is that constitutes a people, ask them what they love” De Civitate Dei 19, 24.

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You should cultivate your affective life. Those who lack this dimension are reprehensible. It was said with genuine affection: ‘Who is weak that I am not affected by it?’Enarrationes in psalmos 55, 6.

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When it is said of us that we have in our hearts the persons about we are thinking, it means that a kind of image of them is impressed upon our souls. Enarrationes in psalmos 139, 15.
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