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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

Saint Augustine

There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Evil Goodness Possible Source
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Angel Change Devil Humility Men Pride
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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God Money Need Poor Receive
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Beauty Growth Love Soul
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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Beware Danger Devil Existence Hell Mathematics
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Dazzle Flory Inspirational Wound
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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Future God Love Mercy Past Present Provide Trust
We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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Future God Love Mercy Mistake Past
The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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Book Compose Growth Mature
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Believe Creation Dependent Sin Sustain
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Fashion Hell One Liner
Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Faith Politics
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Beginning Break Up Ending Growth Kiss Love Smile Tears
Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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Accomplishment Action Advance Glory Humility Value Virtue Work
It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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Book Light Mind Reading Truth
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Believe Rejection Truth Yourself

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

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