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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

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While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

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

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I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors are experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks, stresses, challenges. obstacles. pressures.

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Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.

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Tolle, lege: take up and read.

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Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

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The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

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If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

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So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.

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Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.

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This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

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Except he be willing, man cannot believe.

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In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

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Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.

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Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

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The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

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God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.

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