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If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
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If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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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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Don't go outside get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Our heart is restless until it rests in You.
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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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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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We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.
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Love God, then do what you will.
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For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.
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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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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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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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If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.
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If you understand, it is not God.
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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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