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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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What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.

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Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

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Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

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Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

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What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

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Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

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Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

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Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

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Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

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God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

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Love God, and do what you like.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

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The Devil invented gambling.

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Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

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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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If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

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O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

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