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"The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God."
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"The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal."
Fitness
"For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor."
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"The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin."
Corruption
"The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence."
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"Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image."
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"Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God."
God
"Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation."
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"Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker."
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"The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before."
God
"The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification."
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"Conscience is God present in man."
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"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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