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Doubt is but another element of faith.

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Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.

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If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

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Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

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Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

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Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

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Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

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Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation ... The benefits which flow from Baptism are necessarily fruits which belong to the true Church alone. Children Baptized in other communions cease to be members of the Church when, after reaching the age of reason, they make formal profession of heresy, as, for example, by receiving communion in a non-Catholic Church.

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Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

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The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

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If faith fails, prayer perishes.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

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What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

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And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

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

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