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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

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In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.

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Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

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It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.

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Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

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Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

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When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

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Things are solved by walking around.

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

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You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

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I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.

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I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

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I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

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A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.

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Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

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The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

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Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

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Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

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