"He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much."
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"The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven."
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"In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me."
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"There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride."
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"For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know."
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"Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it."
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"It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all."
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"Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped."
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"Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service."
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"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet."
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"We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers."
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"Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs."
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"If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal."
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"The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them."
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"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. 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. Modest humility is beauty's crown."
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"Punishment is justice for the unjust."
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"No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face."
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"That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not of our head, who is our Savior himself-of whom all, even she herself, are rightly called children of the bridegroom-but plainly she is the mother of us who are his members, because by love she has cooperated so that the faithful, who are the members of that head, might be born in the Church. In body, indeed, she is the Mother of that very head."
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"Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator."
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"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."
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