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Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.
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Give what You command and command what You will.
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Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, Knowledge inflates: but love edifies. The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.
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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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It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.
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You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.
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He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.
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Poetry is devil's wine.
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Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.
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The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.
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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.
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If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.
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We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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