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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
Saint Augustine
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Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.
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I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him He will welcome you and heal you.
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None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
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Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
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They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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A marriage without children is the world without the sun.
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When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.
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Love all men, even your enemies love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.
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