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Jean Baptiste Massillon Quotes: Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.
         

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.


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There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.



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Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.



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Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.





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