"Beware of bad Catholics."
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"People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment."
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"Your wisdom should be without pride."
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"As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it."
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"Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations."
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"Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline."
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"Understanding is the reward of faith."
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"Eternity is the now that does not pass away."
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"By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary]."
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"God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God."
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"The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic."
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"How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable."
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"God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect."
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"The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same."
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"God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable."
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"For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much."
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"We speak, but it is God who teaches."
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"Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated."
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"Between urine and filth we are born."
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"The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?"
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