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"You are not making a gift of what is yours to the poor man, but you are giving him back what is his. You have been appropriating things that are meant to be for the common use of everyone. The earth belongs to everyone, not to the rich."

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Quoted from Pope Paul VI vatican.va

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If you are at Rome, live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere, live as they live there.

Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.

It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.

But it is not only of the space in the Church which we ought to be jealous, but also of the interiors of the house of God in us, so that it might not become a house of merchandise, or a den of robbers.

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