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It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.
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Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.
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Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
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The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it. Although the elements of this world constantly batter and crash against her, she offers the safest harbor of salvation for all in distress.
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Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.
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Let your door stand open to receive Him, unlock your soul to Him, offer Him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace. Throw wide the gate of your heart, stand before the sun of the everlasting light.
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When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.
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But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.
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Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show.
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We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.
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True repentance is to cease from sin.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
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On consideration.. .of the reason wherefore men have so far gone astray, or that many - alas! - should follow diverse ways of belief concerning the Son of God, the marvel seems to be, not at all that human knowledge has been baffled in dealing with superhuman things, but that it has not submitted to the authority of the Scriptures
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It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.
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Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say I am with you), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.
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When in Rome, live in the Roman way.
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If you are at Rome live in the Roman style if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
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There is no time of life past learning something.
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Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
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The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.
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