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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
Disputed The Anchor Book of Latin Quotations: with English translations (1990)
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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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Disputed Majority of One (1957)
Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.
Disputed Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy (1988)
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
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To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.
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Do not despair: one thief was saved. Do not presume: one thief was damned.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
Disputed If God Be For Us : Sermons on the Gifts of the Gospel (1954)
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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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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Woman, compared to other creatures, is the image of God, for she bears dominion over them. But compared unto man, she may not be called the image of God, for she bears not rule and lordship over man, but ought to obey him. The woman shall be subject to man as unto Christ. For woman, has not her example from the body and from the flesh, that so she shall be subject to man, as the flesh is unto the Spirit, because that the flesh in the weakness and mortality of this life lusts and strives against the Spirit, and therefore would not the Holy Ghost give example of subjection to the woman of any such thing.
Disputed John Knox The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate (1558)