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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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We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

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Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

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We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

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In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

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If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.

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Poetry is devil's wine.

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If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

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Whoever possesses God is happy.

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He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

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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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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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My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

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Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

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The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

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That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.

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Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

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Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

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