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Idleness is the enemy of the soul.


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Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.



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God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.



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A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.



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Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.



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God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.



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I believe in order that I may understand.



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Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.



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Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.





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