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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

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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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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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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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