"Anger is a weed; hate is a tree"
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"He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother."
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"The greatest evil is physical pain."
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"For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?"
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"Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal."
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"There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill."
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"Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth."
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"He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will."
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"He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute."
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"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."
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"Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage."
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"Attract them by the way you live."
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"Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen."
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"When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace."
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"Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire."
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"Peace in society depends upon peace in the family."
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"We should never use the truth to wound."
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"Our heart is restless until it rests in You."
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"God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering."
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"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation."
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