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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

Saint Augustine

If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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Correct Goodness Growth Love Pardon Root Silence Speak
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Concept Experience Print
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
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
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
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
Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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God Lord Value
Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Invisible Powerful Reality Sign Symbol Visible
What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Bandit Gang Justice Kingdom
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
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
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
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
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 mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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Body Command Instant Meet Mind Obey Resistance
Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Dependent God Inspirational Pray Responsiblity Work Hard

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