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We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.
Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.
In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.
A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.
For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.
Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.
Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.
If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.
Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.
God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.
While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.
Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.
Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.
God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.