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"What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction"
"In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails."
"What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits."
"When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame."
"He who labours, prays."
"God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!"
"Truth is not private property."
"It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits."
"What do you possess if you possess not God?"
"Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer"
"We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone"
"Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself."
"A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot"
"I believe in order to understand"
"God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist."
"The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied."
"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."
"The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page."
"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."
"If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon."