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Believe that you may understand.

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Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

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The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.

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Understanding is the wages of faith.

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Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

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Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

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You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'

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Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.

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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

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Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

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Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

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The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

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The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

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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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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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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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There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

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