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When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

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My weight is my love.

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If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

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Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.

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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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When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

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One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.

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Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

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Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

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Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

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The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.

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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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The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

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God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

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Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

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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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I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

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