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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

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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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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

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Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

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God is best known in not knowing him.

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Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.

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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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We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

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One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

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Every city is a living body.

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The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

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Love God, then do what you will.

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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

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Beware of bad Catholics.

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Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.

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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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He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

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Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

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