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- Nov 07, 2020
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- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
By nature, men desire the beautiful.
- Forget
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
- Moving On
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.
- Expenditure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020