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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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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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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

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Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.

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There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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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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I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

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If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

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Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

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

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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

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If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

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God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

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There is no possible source of evil except good.

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Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

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To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

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