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A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

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He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

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Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

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Truth is not private property.

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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 Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

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In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.

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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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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.

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One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

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

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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

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Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

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The playthings of our elders are called business.

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Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

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For in our hope we are saved.

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I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

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