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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

Saint Augustine

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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Lord Myself Teaching
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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God Goodness Hands Receive Try
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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God Religious
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Character Discover Love Observe People
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Complete Easy Moderation Perfection
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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Anger Beautiful Courage Daughter Hope
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Ansence Justice Organize Robber
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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God Money Need Poor Receive
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Consent Creation God Help Save
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

Book Light Mind Reading Truth
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
The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Eternity Gain Life Merit Positive Purpose
God gives where he finds empty hands.
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Empty Giving God Hands
Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Finding God Trouble
If you understood him, it would not be God.
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God Understand
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Habit Necessary One Liner Resistence
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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Greatness Himself Kindness Lead Man Render Truth
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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Beware Danger Devil Existence Hell Mathematics
Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Invisible Powerful Reality Sign Symbol Visible
Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Look One Liner Place Right Sin Wrong
What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Bandit Gang Justice Kingdom
We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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Future God Love Mercy Mistake Past
Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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Channel Energy One Liner Sin Wrong
We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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God One Liner Speak Teaching
Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Beauty Love One Liner Soul
Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Faith Politics
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Compassion One Liner Patience Wisdom

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