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It is a sin to judge any man by his post

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There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

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Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

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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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One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

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I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

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The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

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Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

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The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

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Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

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The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

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The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

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I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

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Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.

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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

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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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The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

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