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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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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
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The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
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There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.
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What do I love when I love my God?
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That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.
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A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
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Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.
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Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves. (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).
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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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What you see is the bread and the chalice that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith yet faith does not desire instruction
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All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.
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If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
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He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
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When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
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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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It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.
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