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Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

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Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

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When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

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Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

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The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

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Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.

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Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

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We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

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Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

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Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

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They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

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There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.

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Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.

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Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.

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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

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If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

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