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Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.

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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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Give what You command and command what You will.

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Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

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The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

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What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

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In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

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As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

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The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word

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God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

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Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden.

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None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

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For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

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Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

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Things are solved by walking around.

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

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Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

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I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

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