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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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Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.
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The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .
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Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?
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Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.
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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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The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.
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Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
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I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself and believe much on the strength of weak females.
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We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.
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If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.
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Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.
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There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.
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Don't go outside get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.
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This world's a bubble.
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