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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

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The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
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God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
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One generation and another generation the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.
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The truth is like a lion you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose it will defend itself.
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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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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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I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.
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Love all men, even your enemies love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.
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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?
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Your wisdom should be without pride.
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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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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
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Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.
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Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .
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Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.
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