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

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What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

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

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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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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

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So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

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Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

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Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.

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Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

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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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It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

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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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We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.

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Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you.

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For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.

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It is a sin to judge any man by his post

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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