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Love God, then do what you will.

Saint Augustine

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If you don't believe it you won't understand it.
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If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
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If you understand, it is not God.
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The reward of patience Is patience.
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Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.
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Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self the heavenly by the love of God.
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If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
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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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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
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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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