Secede not from the Church: for nothing is stronger than the Church. Thy hope is the Church; thy salvation is the Church; thy refuge is the Church. It is higher than the heavens and wider than the earth. It never grows old, but is ever full of vigour. Wherefore Holy Writ pointing to its strength and stability calls it a mountain
タグ: sprirituality, saints, relativism, faith, ecuminism, catholicism

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I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
タグ: soul, great, sea, work
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
タグ: divine, reason, human, poor
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
タグ: more, nothing, enemy, wealth
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
タグ: human-nature, who, men, nature
Slander is worse than cannibalism.
タグ: cannibalism, slander, worse, than
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