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"As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground."
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"He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him."

"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."

"Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body."
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"When I sing full-on I use my whole body. I open my throat and let it fly out."

"I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body."
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"I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything."

"The body is not a reliable friend."
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"Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility."

"A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises."

"Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer."

"If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often."

"Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside."

"The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive."

"God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received."

"Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit."

"You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart."
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