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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Saint Augustine

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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God Love
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Beauty Growth Love Soul
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Dazzle Flory Inspirational Wound
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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Hard Time Inspirational Live People Time
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
It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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Advantage Close Eyes Inspirational Light
Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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Adversity Brave Cheer Endurance Love Moderate Prosperity Suffering
We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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Alone Discover Reason Truth Weak
He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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God Himself Love Positive
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
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Holy Home Letter Scripture
If you understood him, it would not be God.
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God Understand
Truth is not private property.
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Justice One Liner Private Property Truth
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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Church Father God Mother
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Love Mortal Slave Soul Unhappy
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

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

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