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Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

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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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Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

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Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

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Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

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No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

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For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

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Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

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The one who sings, prays twice.

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Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).

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

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I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

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The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

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The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

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Tolle, lege: take up and read.

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A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

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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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Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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Things are solved by walking around.

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It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

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