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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

Saint Augustine

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Holy Home Letter Scripture
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
If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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Bad Forgiveness Justice Man Suffering
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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Defend Inspirational Lion Lose 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
Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Lord Myself Teaching
If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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Gift God Preparation Respond Slow
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
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
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
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
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 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
The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Love Measure One Liner
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Happiness Impossible Indeed Live Man

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

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