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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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If faith fails, prayer perishes.

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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 measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

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What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction

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Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

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Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

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

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What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

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What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

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O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

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Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder.

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Love God, and do what you like.

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

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I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

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Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

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