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"Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent."
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"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."

"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."

"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."

"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
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"However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts."

"Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness."

"All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors."

"Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?"

"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray."

"Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men."

"There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice."

"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence."
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