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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

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God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

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The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

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A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.

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The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

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I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.

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In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

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There is no possible source of evil except good.

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One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.

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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

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A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

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Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

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I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

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What can be hoped for which is not believed?

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