Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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