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Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.
Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.
I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.
Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!
The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.
Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.
We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.
Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.
I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.
The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.
Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.
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.
You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.
There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.
Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.
Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.
Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.
It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.
We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.