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I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .
The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.
So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.
Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.
Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.
I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.
The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.
The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.
Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.
If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.
To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.
I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.
When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.