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I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

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All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

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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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Except he be willing, man cannot believe.

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

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Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

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

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My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

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Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

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To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

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God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

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Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of the stars-and forget to wonder at themselves. Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

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For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

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Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.

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If you understand, it is not God.

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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

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Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.

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God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

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