Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
SAINT AUGUSTINEUnderstanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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Truth is not private property.
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