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True repentance is to cease from sin.

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If you are at Rome, live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere, live as they live there.

Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.

It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.

But it is not only of the space in the Church which we ought to be jealous, but also of the interiors of the house of God in us, so that it might not become a house of merchandise, or a den of robbers.

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