"He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should. So then, my brethren, live."

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“That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christian as it grows.”

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“I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.”

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"Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light."

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