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The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word

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If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

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Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

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I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

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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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All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.

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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

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Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

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He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

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All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

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Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

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There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

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It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

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We come to God by love and not by navigation.

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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

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For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

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...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

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