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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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Beware Command Despair God Trust Yourself
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
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Holy Home Letter Scripture
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
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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God Guide Myself
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
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
Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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Channel Energy One Liner Sin Wrong
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
What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Bandit Gang Justice Kingdom
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Dazzle Flory Inspirational Wound
Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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God Lord Value
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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One Liner Peace Purpose War
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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Crime Despair God Lord Save
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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Believe Rejection Truth Yourself
We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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Die Ending God Immortal Live Mortal

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