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

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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

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If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

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It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

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O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

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Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

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All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

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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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As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

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What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

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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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Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.

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There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

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It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

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Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

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Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

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In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.

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