"Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive."
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"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."
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"Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee."
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"It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion."
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"An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church."
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"The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles."
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"I cannot neglect prayer for a single day."
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"I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!"
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"I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain."
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"To pray diligently is more than half the task."
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"A person whodoes not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs."
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"Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils."
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"War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty."
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"The Son of God did not want to be seen and found in heaven. Therefore he descended from heaven into this humility and came to us in our flesh, laid himself into the womb of his mother and into the manger and went on to the cross. This was the ladder that he placed on earth so that we might ascend to God on it. This is the way you must take."
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"Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief."
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"A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law."
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"That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing."
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"For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club."
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"what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits."
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"Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail."
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