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For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

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Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

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All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

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It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

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The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

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There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

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The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

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By and by never comes.

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There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

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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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It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?

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Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

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The world's verdict is conclusive.

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You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

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He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

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