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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.

Saint Augustine

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
Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Death Life Misery One Liner Uncertain
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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Anger Beautiful Courage Daughter Hope
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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Achievement Adventure Fall In Love God Greatness Human Romance Seek
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Comparison Cost Obey
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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Blood Carry Dwell Soul Spirit
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
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.
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Believe Rejection Truth Yourself
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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Friendship Missing Want
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
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Consent Creation God Help Save
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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Explanation Time
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Book Page Travel World
Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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God Lord Value
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

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