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It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love…
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...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us…
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When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each…
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When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as…
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Christ is our hope, our cleansing and santification, our resurrection, life and repose. He alone is what we all need, and therefore,…
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Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man…
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The man who is poor in spirit desires and says with his whole heart, Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy…
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Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury.…
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It would seem, after this, that even when living upon earth we must live as if in the heavenly kingdom, dwelling there…
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Wherefore is this? Because our common enemy, the Devil, endeavours with all his might to oppose the intentions of the God-man, Christ.…
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Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil, who…
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Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against…
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on…
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Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason…
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If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
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The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established,…
— James Madison
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the…
— John Taylor Gatto
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime...
— Lord Acton
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Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating…
— Unknown Author
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We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.
— Saint Basil
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The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near…
— William S. Burroughs
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