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Things are solved by walking around.

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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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To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

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For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

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

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Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

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Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.

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If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

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God without us will not as we without God cannot.

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There is no possible source of evil except good.

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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

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O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

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I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.

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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

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In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

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This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

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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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We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

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If you comprehend, it is not 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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