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For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will perish first. For neither can you remain here always, nor can silver remain here always; so also with gold, wardrobes, houses, money, real estate-and in the end, even the light by which we enjoy all these things. So do not be willing then to rejoice in such things as these. Rejoice instead in the light that has no setting; rejoice in the dawn which no yesterday precedes, and no tomorrow follows.

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

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The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

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We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

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Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

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Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

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Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

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The reward of patience Is patience.

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You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

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It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

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Only He who made man makes man happy.

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If faith fails, prayer perishes.

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You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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

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

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He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

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Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

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What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.

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"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

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