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Religion is a traffic and a shop: you earn a hundred for one when you know how to handle its talent.

— Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi

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Imagine that everything you do is the last act of your life, decisive in an eternity of good or an eternity of evil.

The cursed human respect is a hungry wolf, an enraged lion, who devours himself and swallows most good works.

The truth is indeed pure that if one were to admit a mixture of other things she would no longer be truth.

The vocation to religion is the greatest gratia that God can give to his elect after baptism.

When the priests live badly, the sun eclipses and the light turns to darkness, filling everything with disorder.

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