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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

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In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

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Love and do as you will.

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It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

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We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

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Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

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He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.

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When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

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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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Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.

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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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We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

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The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

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Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

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My weight is my love.

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It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.

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

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