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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

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Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

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

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Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

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If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

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The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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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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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

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

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Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.

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Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

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Christ was born of a woman without the man.

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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

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A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, 'Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world'

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