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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
Saint Augustine
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For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you today never comes to an end: and yet our today does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply today.
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Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.
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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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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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When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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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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There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
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Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.
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For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.
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Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of the stars-and forget to wonder at themselves. Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
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