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Cardinal Ratzinger

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CARDINAL J. GIBBONS Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
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CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
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CARDINAL J. NEWMAN If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'
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FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
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FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.
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CARDINAL J. NEWMAN If he admitted this, it confirms the atmosphere of hatred that has stricken a priest who gave Christ...
CARDINAL PAUL POUPARD Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand
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CARDINAL DE RETZ This is a very damaging confusion.
CARDINAL PAUL POUPARD Culture plays a fundamental role for relations between Christians and Muslims.
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GEORGE CARDINAL PELL You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Living the good life as created beings depends on living within the limits and according to the trut...
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JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We ca...
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JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN I was born Jewish and so I remain, even if that's unacceptable for many. For me, the vocation of Isr...
JEAN MARIE CARDINAL LUSTIGER For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.
JEAN MARIE CARDINAL LUSTIGER Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
LEON JOSEPH CARDINAL SUENENS By my hand and for the good of the state; the bearer has done what has been done. Hmmmm ~~~ one shou...
CARDINAL RICHELIEU FOUR MUSKETEERS The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. [Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.]
CARDINAL CARLO CARAFA (OR CARAFFA) She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.
CARDINAL JEAN FRANCOIS DE RETZ One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?
TOM CLANCY, 'THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN'