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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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They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.
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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.
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God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.
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For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.
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This world's a bubble.
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You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
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Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
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There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.
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Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.
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How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
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If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
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If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
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So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.
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No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.
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When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
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