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The children of Babylon are miserable indeed; they are slaves to passions that can never be satisfied; to a world that can never be contented; to infernal tyrants that are continually dragging them along with them towards hell: they are slaves to empty vanities, childish toys, and lying follies; laboring under a variety of fears, cares, sorrows, uneasinesses, and innumerable other evils, without enjoying so much as any one solid or lasting satisfaction.

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Sanctity does not so much depend upon doing extraordinary actions, as upon doing our ordinary actions extraordinarily well.

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The perfection of our ordinary actions depends upon the purity of intention.

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Few indeed are ignorant of their carnal sins; though even in these, sometimes persons deceive themselves, but very many take little or no notice of their spiritual sins, which are more interior; and, though less infamous in the eyes of men, are more heinous in the sight of God.

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What we ask of God, is mercy, grace, and salvation: now our faith assures us, there is no means of coming at mercy, grace, or salvation, but through Jesus Christ.

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Born: August 29, 1691
Died: January 12, 1781 (aged 89)
Bio: His Excellency, The Right Reverend Bishop Richard Challoner, Bishop of Debra was an English Roman Catholic bishop, a leading figure of English Catholicism during the greater part of the 18th century.

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