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By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

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It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

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I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.

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Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

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For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

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Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

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Poetry is devil's wine.

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Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.

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Understanding is the wages of faith.

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