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Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

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The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

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Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?

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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

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He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

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The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

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Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.

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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

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Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

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The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

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A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

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Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

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We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

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There is no salvation outside the church.

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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

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What do you possess if you possess not God?

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It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

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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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