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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

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When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

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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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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

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When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

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Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

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All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

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Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

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

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His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

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What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

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What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction

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I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within

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The measure of love is to love without measuring.

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Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

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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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