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"That man is an enemy to his Redeemer who on the strength of his good works he performs, desires to be loved by the Church, rather than by Him. Indeed, a servant is guilty of adulterous thought, if he craves to please the eyes of the bride when the bridegroom sends gifts to her by him." P. 117.

Senkbeil quoting Gregory the Great's work on Pastoral Care.

"Though pastoral work is detective work, it's not an inquisition. Never interrogate your parishioners or other distressed souls. You are not an inquisitor; you're a shepherd tenderly caring for Christ's sheeps and lambs." P. 78.

This will be a quote for me to simmer in for some time to come.

"Although Varney was one of the few-- the very few moral monsters, who contrive to lull to sleep the remorse of their own bosoms ... yet he knew that in the breast of his patron there was already awakened the fire that is never quenched, and that his lord felt, amid all the pomp and magnificence we have described, the gnawing of the worm that dieth not." P. 361. Lovely writing and allusions!

"When the habits of a habitus begin to inhabit a workman, he becomes a craftsman and his work a true craft." P. 22

"Although continence "for the kingdom of heaven" is a renunciation of marriage ... in no way can one see in it a negation of the essential value of marriage; on the contrary, continence indirectly serves to highlight what is most lasting and most profoundly personal in the conjugal vocation." P. 442-3

"I cannot deny it, Varney,' said the Earl, 'my own ambition had been traitor to my love.' 'Say rather, my lord, that your love has been traitor to your greatness, and barred you from such a prospect of honour and power as the world cannot offer to any other." P. 236

"God comes in His grace to break up this covenantal relationship between men and Satan ... there is nothing conditional and uncertain about this. God Himself comes to man, He himself plants the emnity, He initiates the warfare, and He promises the victory. Man has no part in this except to listen to it and accept it in childlike faith." - pg. 253 on the covenant of grace.

"What could be worse than pride, which by holding itself from the stature of true greatness? And what is more sublime than humility, which by lowering itself unites with the Creator, who is above all things?" P. 132

"Paul established the way of imitation for good spiritual directors, so that in contemplation they will already desire the highest things; but they will also show compassion for the necessities of the infirm, because charity surges to great heights when it is compassionately drawn to the lowly needs of neighbors. And the more it descends to the infirm, the more valiantly it reaches to the highest things." P. 60

"It is precisely this man ... in whom there remains ... the heritage of the threefold concupiscence, the heritage of sin, as well as the heritage of redemption; it is this man who makes the decision about continence "for the kingdom of heaven": he must make this decision by subordinating the sinfulness of his own humanity to the powers that flow from the mystery of the redemption of the body." P. 428

"I pray, sir, let Quinctilian be for the present, and answer, in a word and in English, if your learning can condescend so far, whether there is any place here where I can have opportunity to refresh my horse, until I can have him shod?" P. 120

"[Continence] as a human being points out the eschatological "virginity" of the risen man, in which the absolute and eternal spousal meaning of the glorified body will be revealed in union with God himself, by seeing him "face to face," glorified moreover through the union of a perfect, intersubjectivity that will unite all the "sharers in the other world" in the mystery of the communion of the saints." P. 419

"Accordingly, it is recorded of Cain that he built a city, but Abel, being a sojourner, built none. For the city of the saints is above, although here below it begets citizens, in whom it sojourns till the time of its reign arrives ... then shall the promised kingdom be given to them, in which they shall reign with their Prince, the King of the ages, time without end." - Augustine doing Augustine things. p. 104.

"The statement "when they rise from the dead, they will take neither wife nor husband" indicates that there is a condition of life without marriage, in which man, male and female, finds at one and the same time the fullness of personal giving and of the intersubjective communion of persons, thanks to the glorification of his whole psychosomatic being in the eternal union with God." P. 412