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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

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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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Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

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Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

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Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

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God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

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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 loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

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When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.

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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

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Poetry is devil's wine.

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Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

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Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

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The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

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Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

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We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

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