"The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will."

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If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow.

— Pope Gregory I