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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

Saint Augustine

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Love Mortal Slave Soul Unhappy
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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Hard Time Inspirational Live People Time
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
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Compassion One Liner Patience Wisdom
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Book Page Travel World
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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Goodness Live Time
There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Evil Goodness Possible Source
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
The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Eternity Gain Life Merit Positive Purpose
You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Goodness Holy Lord Need
Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Dependent God Inspirational Pray Responsiblity Work Hard
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Fashion Hell One Liner
Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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Adversity Brave Cheer Endurance Love Moderate Prosperity Suffering
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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God Love
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
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Explanation Time

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