"Unbelief is the greatest of sins."
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"The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe."
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"Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish."
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"If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame."
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"By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever."
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"Venial sin becomes mortal sin when one approves it as an end. . ."
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"The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost."
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"He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith."
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"When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair."
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"There is no leisure about politics."
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"There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects."
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"The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him."
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"They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from malice, it is possible to make a quite probable judgment that they would never come away from evil."
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"Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's glory, Of His Flesh, the mystery sing; Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed by our Immortal King, Destined, for the world's redemption, From a noble Womb to spring."
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"Art is right reason in the doing of work."
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"Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight."
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"Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul."
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"Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God."
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"Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult."
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"The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things."
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