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If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

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None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

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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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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

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For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

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Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.

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Beware of bad Catholics.

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Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

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AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

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You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

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Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

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As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

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Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

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The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

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