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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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God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

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Love and do as you will.

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For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

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Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

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You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

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What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.

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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

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Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

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And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.

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Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.

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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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Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

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Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.

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God is best known in not knowing him.

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For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

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