"Every infinity... is made finite to God."
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"Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for.""
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"Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother."
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"We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is."
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"The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than as they shall reign hereafter; and yet, though the tares grow in the Church along with the wheat, they do not reign with Him. For they reign with Him who do what the apostle says, 'If you are risen with Christ, mind the things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Seek those things which are above, not the things which are on the earth'."
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"The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them."
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"There is no salvation outside the church."
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"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain."
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"God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity."
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"A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline."
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"Understanding is the wages of faith."
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"Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . ."
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"When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live."
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"Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith."
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"Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you."
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"Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin."
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"Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man"
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"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden."
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"What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)"
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"For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets."
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