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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

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Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though there be no numbering of infinite numbers, is yet not incomprehensible by Him Whose understanding is infinite. And thus, if everything which is comprehended is defined or made finite by the comprehension of him who knows it, then all infinity is in some ineffable way made finite to God, for it is comprehensible by His knowledge.

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You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

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To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

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A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

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I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

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Except he be willing, man cannot believe.

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All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

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Singing is a lover's thing.

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Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

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Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

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We speak, but it is God who teaches.

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He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

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So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.

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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

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Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.

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And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.

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