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God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.

— Girolamo Savonarola Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God.

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Behold the sword of the Lord will descend suddenly and quickly upon the earth.

The best, and the worst, that can be said of the tempestuous friar is that he loved God so passionately that he had very little love left for man.

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