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When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.

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Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
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As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.
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For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?
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If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.
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The Psalms are the voices of the church.
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The world has been created for everyone's use, but you few rich are trying to keep it up for yourselves. For not merely the possession of the earth, but the very sky, the air, and the sea are claimed for the use of the rich few... The earth belongs to all, not just to the rich.
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The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
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The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within herself: 'If I do but touch His garment I shall be whole' (Mt. 9:21). So the Church confesses her wounds, but desires to be healed.
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It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.
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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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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.
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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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If it is daily bread, why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year.
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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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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
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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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The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.
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