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A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

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Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

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I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

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I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.

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In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

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The measure of love is to love without measuring.

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Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

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Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

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And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.

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God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

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God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

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Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

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I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

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Tolle, lege: take up and read.

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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

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For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

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Truth is not private property.

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Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

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The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

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For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.

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