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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

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Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).

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Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation ... The benefits which flow from Baptism are necessarily fruits which belong to the true Church alone. Children Baptized in other communions cease to be members of the Church when, after reaching the age of reason, they make formal profession of heresy, as, for example, by receiving communion in a non-Catholic Church.

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Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.

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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

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Understanding is the wages of faith.

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I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

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One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

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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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Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

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

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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

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It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

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When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

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