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Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

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We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.

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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

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To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

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He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

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My weight is my love.

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Christ was born of a woman without the man.

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Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

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No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.

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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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Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

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If you comprehend, it is not God.

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Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

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You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

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Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

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And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

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So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

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When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

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