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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

Saint Augustine

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
Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Lord Myself Teaching
If you understood him, it would not be God.
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God Understand
Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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God Heart Religious Rest
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.
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Future God Love Mercy Mistake Past
The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Eternity Gain Life Merit Positive Purpose
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Beauty Growth Love Soul
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Beware Danger Devil Existence Hell Mathematics
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
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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Decision Earthquake Errupt Love Madness Temporary
What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

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
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Happiness Impossible Indeed Live Man
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Book Light Mind Reading Truth
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Achievement Adventure Fall In Love God Greatness Human Romance Seek
Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Faith Politics

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