"The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross."
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"Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts."
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"It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes."
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"The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is."
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"To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them."
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"Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not."
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"One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about."
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"Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless."
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"There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved."
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"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."
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"To love God is something greater than to know Him."
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"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."
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"The light of faith makes us see what we believe."
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"It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges."
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"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."
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"Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy."
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"The greater the charity of the Saints in their heavenly home, the more they intercede for those who are still on their journey and the more they can help them by their prayers; the more they are united with God, the more effective those prayers are. This is in accordance with Divine order, which makes higher things react upon lower things, like the brightness of the sun filling the atmosphere."
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"When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness."
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"Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate."
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"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."
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