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Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive. (John 20:38)

My fellow Christians, do we wish to celebrate joyfully the birth of this temple? Then let us not destroy the living temples of God in ourselves by works of evil. (Saint Caeserius of Arles,...

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of...

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness (G.K. Chesterton)

The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right. (G.K. Chesterton)

We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: "I will pray, and then I will understand." This is the way we can easily overcome the countless difficulties we have...

Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. (Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester's, dying words, as quoted in Shakespeare's History of Henry VI)

It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins (2 Maccabees, 12:46)

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