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"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."
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"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia."
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"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."
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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
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"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."
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"But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage."
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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."
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"It is better to be kind than be impolite."
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"There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own."
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"Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good."
Ethics
"Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing."
Mindset
"Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good?"
Spiritual
"What do I love when I love my God?"
Faith
"Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?"
Justice
"Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature."
Spiritual
"Custom is second nature."
Nature
"The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king."
Freedom
"Let the Lord your God be your hope " seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself."
Faith
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