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Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

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Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

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Believe that you may understand.

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Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.

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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

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O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

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It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

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

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While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

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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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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder.

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Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown.

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I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

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The Devil invented gambling.

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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

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