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Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

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Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

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God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

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What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

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Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

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What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

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Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.

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Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

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Beware of bad Catholics.

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Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

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Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

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Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

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Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

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If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

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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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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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It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

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Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

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