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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

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Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

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I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

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He who labours, prays.

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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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Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

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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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Understanding is the reward of faith.

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Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

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Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

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"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

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You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

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Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

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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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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.

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We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

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Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

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God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.

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