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- Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should…
- O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can…
- A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal…
- Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
- Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.
- Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul…
- The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it…
- There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found…
- God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
- What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker…
- The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.
- The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the…
- Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though…
- ... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept;…
- Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so…
- In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept…
- Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down…
- He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally…
- It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to…
- The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every…
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