"For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people."
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"Love is ever new because it never groweth old."
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"Grace alone brings about every good work in us."
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"The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins."
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"I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so."
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"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."
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"Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new."
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"Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought."
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"Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die."
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"The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass."
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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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"Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe."
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"Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place."
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"God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them."
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"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things."
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"Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace ."
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"To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible."
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"Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace."
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"For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten."
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"He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade."
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