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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.

Saint Augustine

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
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Believe Creation Dependent Sin Sustain
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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Crime Despair God Lord Save
Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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Afraif God Lord Throw Yourself
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
Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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Inspirational Justice Right Wrong
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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Anxiety Disorder Mind Punishment
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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Happiness Heart Pleasure Treasure
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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God Man One Liner Provide Raise Sail Wind
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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Love Philosophy
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
What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Bandit Gang Justice Kingdom
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
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
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 Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Holy Home Letter Scripture
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Character Discover Love Observe People
Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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Dependent Family One Liner Peace Society
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
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Future Inspirational Past Saint Sin
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Complete Easy Moderation Perfection
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
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Love Mortal Slave Soul Unhappy
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Consent Creation God Help Save
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
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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God Love
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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God Religious

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