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AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: Compel people to come in! By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
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If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
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The greatest evil is physical pain.
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A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say God, what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for.
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Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.
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...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
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For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.
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Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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So give to the poor I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.
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While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
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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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There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.
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For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.
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What is time? If I am not asked, I know if I am asked, I don't.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.
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Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.
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