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Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

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Love and do as you will.

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Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

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He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

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That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.

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Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

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

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Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

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And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

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Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

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Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.

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Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

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Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

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If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

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The purpose of all wars, is peace.

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Understanding is the wages of faith.

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Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

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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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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

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