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What is time? If I am not asked, I know if I am asked, I don't.

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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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Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more though vastly rich, He has not more to give.
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Beauty is the brilliance of truth.
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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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Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.
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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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Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.
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Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
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We should never use the truth to wound.
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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
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God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)
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You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: Do this! And you did it.
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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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We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
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