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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 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
If you understood him, it would not be God.
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God Understand
Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Finding God Trouble
Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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God Lord Value
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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God Love
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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Goodness Live Time
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Forgiveness God Procrastination Promise Repentance
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
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Dazzle Flory Inspirational Wound
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Concept Experience Print
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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God Man One Liner Provide Raise Sail Wind
Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Beauty Love One Liner Soul
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Comparison Cost Obey
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Happiness Impossible Indeed Live Man
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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Hard Time Inspirational Live People Time
Truth is not private property.
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Justice One Liner Private Property Truth
Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Angel Change Devil Humility Men Pride
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
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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Happiness Heart Pleasure Treasure
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
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
We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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Alone Discover Reason Truth Weak
I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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Anxiety Friendship Lost Misery Overcome State
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Believe Creation Dependent Sin Sustain
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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Defend Inspirational Lion Lose Truth
Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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Angel Dance Heaven Learn

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