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Unjust laws aren't laws at all.
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It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
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Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
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Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.
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In what is necessary, unity in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.
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You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away the world is losing its grip the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'
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Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.
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This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted for both morning and evening were made in them.
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Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe
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True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.
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A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.
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I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?
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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 love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
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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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For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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