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There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure from them I derive new life.
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Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
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It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.
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Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
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A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.
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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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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
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Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.
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I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself and believe much on the strength of weak females.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.
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It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Beauty is the brilliance of truth.
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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
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You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.
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