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When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.
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Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
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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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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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The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.
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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
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To my God a heart of flame To my fellow man a heart of love To myself a heart of steel.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.
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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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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.
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Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
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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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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
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No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
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