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Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say God, what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for.

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I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.
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Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.
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There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
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Eternity is the now that does not pass away.
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Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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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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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
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The argument is at an end.
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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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Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.
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The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.
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I asked the whole frame of the world about my God and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
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Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.
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The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
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Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
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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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Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.
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