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This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

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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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Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

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All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

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Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

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If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

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Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

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Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

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Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the whole substance is one image. But when she is assigned the role as helpmate, a function that pertains to her alone, then she is not the image of God. But as far as the man is concerned, he is by himself alone the image of God just as fully and completely as when he and the woman are joined together into one.

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It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?

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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

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No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown.

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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

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