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The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

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Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

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I believe in order to understand

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The world's verdict is conclusive.

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My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

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As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

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Tolle, lege: take up and read.

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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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God without us will not as we without God cannot.

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God gives where he finds empty hands.

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How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

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Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

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Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

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It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.

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Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

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There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.

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For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.

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