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Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

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Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

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There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

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Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

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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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The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

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Things are solved by walking around.

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God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

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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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Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.

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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

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By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

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Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

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We come to God by love and not by navigation.

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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

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Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

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