Benedict Joseph Labre famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.
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'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'
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We offend God because we do not know His greatness.
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However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.
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God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.
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I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.
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He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.
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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
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I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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