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My weight is my love.
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Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no mode that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Give us this day our daily bread, by this day we mean at this time, when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happine
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Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?
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If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.
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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
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When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.
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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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Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul with the garment of faith? Remember each morning the truths of your creed, and look at yourself in the mirror of your faith. Otherwise, your soul will soon be naked with the nakedness of oblivion.
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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
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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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You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away the world is losing its grip the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'
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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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Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.
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God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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