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Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

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Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

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The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word

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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

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It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word.

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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

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It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him,' but, 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit.' The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam.

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The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

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He that is jealous is not in love.

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

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I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

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Believe that you may understand.

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Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

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Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

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When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

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We should never use the truth to wound.

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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

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