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You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.
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There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.
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Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
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He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.
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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
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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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Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
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The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.
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I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.
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Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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Understanding is the wages of faith.
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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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Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love if you shout, you will shout with love if you correct, you will correct with love.
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Love and say it with your life.
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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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Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .
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So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.
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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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This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
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