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Quotes by Saint
"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot."
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"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."
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"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."
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"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."
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"Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words."
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"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible."
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"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."
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"The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences."
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"The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins."
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"When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere."
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"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
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"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."
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"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."
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"Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee."
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"The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church."
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"Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones."
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"There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart."
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"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."
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"Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul."
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"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."
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"One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman."
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"You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things."
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"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."
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"For every man, however laudably he lives, yet yields in some points to the lust of the flesh."
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"Don't let your sins turn into bad habits."
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"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."
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"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell."
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"How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity."
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