A Quote by Edward Dahlberg
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
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