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By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

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The argument is at an end.

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The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.

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No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

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The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

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In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.

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

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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

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I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

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Attract them by the way you live.

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Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

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The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

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Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more beautiful than all of them. He Who made all mighty things is more mighty than all of them. He Who made all great things is greater than all of them. Learn to love the Creator in His creature, and the maker in what He has made.

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The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.

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If you understood him, it would not be God.

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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

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I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

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Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

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