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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

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I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

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The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

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We should never use the truth to wound.

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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

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God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

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Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

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Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

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I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors are experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks, stresses, challenges. obstacles. pressures.

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Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

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If you understand, it is not God.

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Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

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Beware of bad Catholics.

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What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

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The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

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Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

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