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

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Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

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Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

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Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.

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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

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To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

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Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread.

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Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

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A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

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Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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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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The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

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God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

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In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.

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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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Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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