"To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die."
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"God gives where he finds empty hands."
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"There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God."
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"...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless."
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"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."
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"The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest."
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"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked."
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"We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed."
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"There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it."
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"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."
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"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."
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"If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?"
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"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."
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"Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate."
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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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"And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here."
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"What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not."
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"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men."
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"Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy."
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"Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive."
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