"We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts."
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"No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world."
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"Bien que les étoiles ne parlent pas, même en étant silencieux, ils crient. Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out."
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"Men are idol factories."
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"But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God."
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"There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour."
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"The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols."
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"This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils."
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"There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously."
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"Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him."
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"But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction."
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"Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude."
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"Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas."
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"We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone."
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"Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?"
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"In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are."
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"Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved."
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"Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have."
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"Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?"
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"the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy."
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