Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEPatience is the companion of wisdom.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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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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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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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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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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