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They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

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We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

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Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

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If faith fails, prayer perishes.

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That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not of our head, who is our Savior himself-of whom all, even she herself, are rightly called children of the bridegroom-but plainly she is the mother of us who are his members, because by love she has cooperated so that the faithful, who are the members of that head, might be born in the Church. In body, indeed, she is the Mother of that very head.

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My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.

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You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

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God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

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Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

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If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

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If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

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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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If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

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Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

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A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.

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We judge all things according to the divine truth.

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