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- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
- What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course…
- For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence…
- There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try…
- God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more…
- Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He…
- Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed,…
- What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord? These men…
- That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left…
- There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.
- When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
- Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
- God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
- 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…
- God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
- Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.
- Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If…
- He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which…
- When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with…
- A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
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