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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

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"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

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I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

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When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

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And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

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Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

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O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

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To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

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God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

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The Devil invented gambling.

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In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15-19), down to the present episcopate.

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If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.

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Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

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I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid loose? If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides, "Let him alone, let him do as he will, for he is not yet baptised?" but as to bodily health, no one says, "Let him be worse wounded, for he is not yet healed." How much better then, had I been at once healed; and then, by my friends' diligence and my own, my soul's recovered health had been kept safe in Thy keeping who gavest it.

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The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

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