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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

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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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The purpose of all wars, is peace.

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

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Understanding is the wages of faith.

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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

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Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

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No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

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Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it is right they should ... With you, where there is none of these things to attract or keep me... No one shall move me from the faith which binds my mind with ties so many and so strong to the Christian religion... For my part, I should not believe the gospel except as moved by the authority of the Catholic Church.

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He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

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And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

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God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

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You are what you love.

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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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The reward of patience Is patience.

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What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

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No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

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I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

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