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It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

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What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.

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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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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

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One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.

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I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

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Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

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A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.

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Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

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Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

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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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Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.

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Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

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The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

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What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

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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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I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

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