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The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

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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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Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.

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Only He who made man makes man happy.

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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

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It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

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Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

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What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

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I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

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Every infinity... is made finite to God.

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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

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All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.

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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

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You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

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Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

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Custom is second nature.

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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

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What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.

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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

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