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Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

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Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

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If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

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Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

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God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

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My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

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If you understood him, it would not be God.

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Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

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For in our hope we are saved.

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In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

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We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

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We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

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Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

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When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?

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Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.

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The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

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None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

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Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

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