"We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it."
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"Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)"
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"War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity."
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"I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love."
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"What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority."
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"I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters."
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"Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?"
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"Unjust laws aren't laws at all."
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"I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me."
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"Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism."
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"It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection."
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"It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error."
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"I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors are experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks, stresses, challenges. obstacles. pressures."
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"The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church."
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"The reward of patience Is patience."
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"Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times."
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"Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love."
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"No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility"
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"All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me."
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"Tolle, lege: take up and read."
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