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Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.
Saint Augustine
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He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.
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If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
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If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.
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We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.
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There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.
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Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.
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If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
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Love God, then do what you will.
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If you don't believe it you won't understand it.
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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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Except he be willing, man cannot believe.
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