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Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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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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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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For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
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Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.
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We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.
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Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.
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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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My weight is my love.
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If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
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A man may lose the good things of this life against his will but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.
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Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.
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So give to the poor I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
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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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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
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Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.
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