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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

Saint Augustine

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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Believe Faith Inspirational Reward Understand
We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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God One Liner Speak Teaching
I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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Anxiety Friendship Lost Misery Overcome State
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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Beware Command Despair God Trust Yourself
He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Glory God Love Sake
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
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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God Religious
He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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God Himself Love Positive
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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Atheist Deny Existence God
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
We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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Die Ending God Immortal Live Mortal
If you understood him, it would not be God.
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God Understand
Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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Acceptance Believe Heaven Rational Reason Seek Soul
We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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Alone Discover Reason Truth Weak
What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Bandit Gang Justice Kingdom
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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God Guide Myself

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