Quote #6
The violence which assails good men to test them, to cleanse and purify them, effects in the wicked their condemnation, ruin, and annihilation.
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- Translated: The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light,-although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
- Nos fecisti ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te.
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- Translation: Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.