"God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there."

"…these lists [Fruits of the Spirit, Galatians 5:21] are fruit, consequences, effects. The natural condition of our souls produces and enjoys the desires of the flesh. But when we walk in step with the spirit of God, the character of Jesus is produced in us."

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Conducting Terms off wikipedia: (that I find hilarious while studying hahah…)

religioso: religiously
ridicolosamente: humorously, inaccurate, and loosely
acceso: ignited, on fire
barbaro: barbarous
lusingando: coaxingly
volante: flying

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"The secret of God’s presence is actually believed by very few, but are you aware, that if each one truly believed it, the whole world would at once be filled with the saints, and the earth would be truly Paradise? If men really believed it as they should, they would need nothing more to induce them to give themselves up, heart and soul, to this loving god. But now it is hid from their eyes. Let us pray, my beloved, that God may be made known and manifested to many hearts, and thus in the light of His divine presence, the darkness of mere human life may be dispelled, and all things cast away, both without and within the heart, which hinder the growth and life of the soul, and which this light alone discovers and unveils. In all Christian practice there is nothing more universally needful, nothing simpler, sweeter, and more useful, nothing which so sums up in itself all Christian duties in one blessed act, as the realization of the loving presence of God."