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" The greatest evil is physical pain. "
Saint Augustine
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Physical
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" What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. "
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" Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. "
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" O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. "
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" 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. "
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Love
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" The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. "
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Confession
Beginning
" We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. "
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Our
Make
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" Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. "
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Seek
Understand
You
" Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. "
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Wood
Head
Driven
" Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. "
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Perfect
Than
" He who labours, prays. "
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Who
He
Labours
" God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. "
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Loves
Us
Were
" The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. "
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Among
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Like
" The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before. "
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Same
Christian
Now
" Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. "
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Die
Person
Poison
" 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. "
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Wife
Man
Evil
" In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? "
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Absence
Government
Organized
" Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. "
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Give
Give Me
Chastity
" Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia. "
Ezekiel Emanuel
End
Suicide
Need
" In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. "
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Doing
Because
Deserve
" Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. "
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Doctor
Office
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" Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. "
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Doctor
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" To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. "
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Moderation
Abstinence
Perfect
" Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. "
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Good
Place
You
" It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. "
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Cause
Punishment
Martyr
" God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. "
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God
Good
Better
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" If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. "
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Yourself
" Patience is the companion of wisdom. "
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Companion
Wisdom
Patience