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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.

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The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

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The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

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This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

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They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.

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Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

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Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

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What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.

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A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

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Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

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

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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

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The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic.

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He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

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Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

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Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

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Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder.

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