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I believe in order to understand

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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

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Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

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We should never use the truth to wound.

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

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A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot

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You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

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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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Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

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God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

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Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

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Tolle, lege: take up and read.

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Beware of bad Catholics.

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Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

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Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.

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