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Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.
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Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.
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For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you today never comes to an end: and yet our today does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply today.
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Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
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Christ was born of a woman without the man.
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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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If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.
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For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.
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Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
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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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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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If you understand, it is not God.
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If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
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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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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.
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Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.
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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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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.
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