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I believe in order to understand

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Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

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It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

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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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Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

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

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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

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He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

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Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

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

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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

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He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

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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 whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

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Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.

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My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

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He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.

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Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

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