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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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What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker men are, the more they are troubled by such matters. Their weakness stems from a desire to appear learned, not with a knowledge of things, by which we are edified, but with a knowledge of signs, by which it is difficult not to be puffed up in some way; even a knowledge of things often makes people boastful, unless their necks are held down by the Lord's yoke.

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The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.

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The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

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While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

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

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

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Only He who made man makes man happy.

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He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

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God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

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