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Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

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Salvation is God's way of making us real people.

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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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What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

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If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

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The Devil invented gambling.

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This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

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Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

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When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

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On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what it signifies, or about the greatness of the reality of which it is a sacrament. Your eyes are looking at bread and cup. This is the evidence before your physical sight. But your faith must be instructed concerning it- this bread being Christ 's Body and the cup containing His Blood. Though perhaps these words may be enough to initiate faith, faith must be further instructed in accordance with the Prophet's words: 'Believe that you may understand'

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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

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What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

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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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No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

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One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

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It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

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Except he be willing, man cannot believe.

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The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.

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Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

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