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"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

"The greatest evil is physical pain."

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

"Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence."

"If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times."

"Love is the beauty of the soul."
Love

"Love, and do what you like."

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

"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."

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

"Punishment is justice for the unjust."

"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."

"Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart."

"Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?"

"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently."

"Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."

"The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered."

"Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act."

"There is no possible source of evil except good."

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