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Quotes by Saint
"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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"We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides."
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"Indeed we also work, but we are only collaborating with God who works, for his mercy has gone before us. It has gone before us so that we may be healed, and follows us so that once healed, we may be given life; it goes before us so that we may be called, and follows us so that we may be glorified; it goes before us so that we may live devoutly, and follows us so that we may always live with God: for without him we can do nothing."
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"The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder."
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"Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery."
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"Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul."
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"This disease of curiosity."
25
"True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect law of God Almighty by which the mores of various places and times were adapted to those places and times."
25
"Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an Angel."
25
"When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment."
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"But perhaps there are insensitive hearts, still incapable of receiving this Light because the weight of their sins prevents them from seeing it. Let them not imagine that they Light is absent because they do not see it, for on account of their sins they are in darkness. 'And the Light shone in the darkness, and the darkness understood it not' (Jn 1:5). Therefore, Brothers, like the blind man exposed to the sun, the sun being present to him but he being absent from the sun, so the insensitive one, the sinner, the impious has a blind heart."
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"Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought."
24
"There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed!"
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"Behold, now, how foolish it is, in so great an abundance of the truest opinions which can be extracted from these words, rashly to affirm which of them Moses particularly meant; and with pernicious contentions to offend charity itself, on account of which he hath spoken all the things whose words we endeavour to explain!"
24
"If you understood him, it would not be God."
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"Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of."
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"For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is beaten small, while the grain is cleansed; and as the lees are not mixed with the oil, though squeezed out of the vat by the same pressure, so the same violence of affliction proves, purges, clarifies the good, but damns, ruins, exterminates the wicked. And thus it is that in the same affliction the wicked detest God and blaspheme, while the good pray and praise."
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"Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times."
22
"The reader of these reflections of mine on the Trinity should bear in mind that my pen is on the watch against the sophistries of those who scorn the starting-point of faith, and allow themselves to be deceived through an unseasonable and misguided love of reason."
22
"Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law."
22
"If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself."
21
"A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact."
21
"My soul is like a house, small for you to enter, but I pray you to enlarge it. It is in ruins, but I ask you to remake it. It contains much that you will not be pleased to see: this I know and do not hide. But who is to rid it of these things? There is no one but you."
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"I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy."
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"Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature."
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"Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil."
20
"I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance " You oh God " towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter."
20
"How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose..! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place.... O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation."
20
"It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds."
20
"I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me."
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"There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing."
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"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."
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"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?"
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"A community is nothing else than a harmonious collection of individuals."
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"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
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"This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction."
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