Quote #34

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

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  1. You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
  2. So the Church too, like Mary, enjoys perpetual virginity and uncorrupted fecundity.
  3. He who created you without you will not justify you without you.
  4. So the Church imitates the Lord's mother - not in the bodily sense, which it could not do - but in mind it is both mother and virgin. In no…
  5. The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.
  6. But it isn't just a matter of faith, but of faith and works. Each is necessary. For the demons also believe -you heard the apostle- and tre…
  7. He who sings prays twice. (Qui cantat, bis orat)
  8. When the apostle James was talking about faith and works against those who thought their faith was enough, and didn't want to have good wor…

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