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Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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Love God, and do what you like.

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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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God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

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Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

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

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All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

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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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Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

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Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

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I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.

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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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The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

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Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

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