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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
Saint Augustine
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If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.
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To my God a heart of flame To my fellow man a heart of love To myself a heart of steel.
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The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
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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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Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
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If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.
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What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
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