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Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

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Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

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You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

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The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.

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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

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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 grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

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The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

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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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Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

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It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

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Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

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Beware of bad Catholics.

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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

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