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- By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
- Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but…
- Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with…
- Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when…
- It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.
- 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…
- ... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept;…
- He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him…
- ...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even…
- Tolle, lege: take up and read.
- 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 a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set…
- You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and…
- Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend…
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