What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
SAINT AUGUSTINESin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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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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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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