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Virginity can be lost by a thought. St. Jerome

Thought Lost Virginity

The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless. Edith Stein

Love Words Fear Word Example Living Every Carried Out Must Entire Remain Instill Most Instruction Disciplinary Without Does Method Educational Effective Any Process Which Measure Useless

Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.' Edith Stein

Life People Maturity Before Herself Say Possessed Able Only Individual Tends Individual Person Develop She Course Without Becomes Person Personal Being Achieves Acquainted Certain Who Uniqueness Her

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. Francis of Assisi

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you. Isaac of Nineveh

You Soul Peace Will Own Earth Heaven Then Your

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. Pope John Paul II

Politics World Responsibility Free Example Radical Humane Society Changes Democratic Genuinely Leave America Just World Politics

In some causes silence is dangerous. Saint Ambrose

Silence Dangerous Some Causes

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand. Saint Ambrose

Kindness Freer Returned Hand Should Received

God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy. Saint Ambrose

God Good Strength Soul Heart Joy Grace Gift Light Faithful Enjoy Our Possess Those See Supernatural He Since Him Glory His Accustomed Refusing Hold Ask Us Who Let Us Fast

Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud. Saint Ambrose

Words Too Much Own Too Back Run Riot Rather River Thy Talking Within Overflowing Sins Up Quickly Confined Banks Wanton Them Themselves Much Held Mud Grow Bind Gather

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all. Saint Ambrose

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. Saint Augustine

Thou Wilt Command Then Grant

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. Saint Augustine

Duty Nothing More Simply Him Does Due His Eulogy Who

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. Saint Basil

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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury. Saint Basil

God Nature Thoughts Heart Disclose Human Nature Secret Our Possess Neighbor Faculty Share Since Another His Hearts Human Common Them Might Forth Us Created Granted Who Each Bringing Treasury Speech

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil. Saint Basil

Good Evil Doctrine Masters Taught Teach Wholly

I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches. Saint Patrick

Me World Better Poverty Become Affliction Worthy See Exalted Above Delights He Since Know Most Surely Lord Am Nor Than Riches Should Grant Measure Present Present World

I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world. Saint Teresa of Avila

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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her. Saint Teresa of Avila

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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory. Saint Teresa of Avila

Good Eyes Memory Better Evil Made Once Saw Those Hid Out Wretched Imperfect He Good Works Rendered Blind Him Lord However Been Sins Blotted Them Who Deeds Works Even

Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God. Athanasius

God Know Redeemer Than Cannot Less Jesus

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love. Edith Stein

Love God Spiritual Love Is Every Else Relating Our Everything Everything Else Neighbor Since Commandment Question End Transcends Means Need

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