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“The Father looking down upon the earth does not desire to see men distinct and separated by their own individual and imperfect forms, so much as clothed and united in the garments and personality of His Son. … Everyone else may fall under the delighted glance of the Father in so far as he identifies himself with the Son upon the Cross.”

“When a false idea of the state and nation takes hold of a people, the Church appears eventually as hostile to the true development of the state. Nationalism as now conceived has no room for Christ.”

“The ecclesiastical structure of the Church possesses a changeless unity over and above the unity of those individuals who at any one time make up the hierarchy. This entity, therefore, possesses a closer identification with Christ, and a more singular unity than the union of wills and even than the union of grace.”

“On condition that we correspond to interior grace and endeavor to become perfect Christians in fact as well as in title, we have a pledge in the character that calls down upon us the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost.”