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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

Saint Augustine

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
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Ansence Justice Organize Robber
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
What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Bandit Gang Justice Kingdom
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
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
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
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
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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Decision Earthquake Errupt Love Madness Temporary
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 understood him, it would not be God.
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God Understand
He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Glory God Love Sake
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
Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Beauty Love One Liner Soul
We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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Alone Discover Reason Truth Weak
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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Believe Faith Reward

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