Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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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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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 soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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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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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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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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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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