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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

Saint Augustine

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
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
It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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Book Light Mind Reading Truth
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Concept Experience Print
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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God Money Need Poor Receive
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Beauty Growth Love Soul
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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Achievement Adventure Fall In Love God Greatness Human Romance Seek
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
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Ansence Justice Organize Robber
If you understood him, it would not be God.
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God Understand
He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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God Himself Love Positive
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
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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Accomplishment Action Advance Glory Humility Value Virtue Work
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
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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God Love
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

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