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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Saint Augustine

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
Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Love One Liner Reason
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Fashion Hell One Liner
Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Contrary Miracle Nature
To sing is to pray twice.
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Prayer Religious Sing
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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Believe God Prayer Work Hard
If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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Bad Forgiveness Justice Man Suffering
Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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Channel Energy One Liner Sin Wrong
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
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
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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God Religious
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
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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Believe Faith Reward
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
Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Faith Politics
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
If you understood him, it would not be God.
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God Understand
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
Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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One Liner Peace Purpose War
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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Goodness Live Time
When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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God Indeed Strength Weakness
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
You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Goodness Holy Lord Need
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
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
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

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