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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

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None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

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No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

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To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

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

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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

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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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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.

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Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

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It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

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Salvation is God's way of making us real people.

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Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.

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The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

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I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

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In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.

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Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

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If you understood him, it would not be God.

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