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• Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

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  Inspiration, Men, Arrogance

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• The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

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  Angel, Sacrifice, Helping

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• Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

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  Christian, League, Soul

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• You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

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  Humility, Charity

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• Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.

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  Believe, Miracle, Doe

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• If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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  Believe, Philosophical, Soul

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• So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.

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  Without You, Justify

  "Sermons (148-183).: On the New Testament. III,5". Book by Saint Augustine, 1992.

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• Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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  Wine, Poetry, Devil

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• Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

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  Giving, Chastity, Give Me

  'Confessions' (397-8) bk. 8, ch. 7

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• In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.

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  Christian, Blood, Flow

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• Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.

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  Son, Blood, Dear

  "Sermons" by Augustine of Hippo, 216:3:1,

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• The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

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  Law, Wicked, Delight

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• Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?

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  Errors, Light, Wind

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• Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

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  Men, Littles, Bigs

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• His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

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  Past, Three, Variation

  Saint Augustine (2003). “City of God”, p.589, Penguin UK

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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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  Two, World, Knowledge Of God

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• Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the whole substance is one image. But when she is assigned the role as helpmate, a function that pertains to her alone, then she is not the image of God. But as far as the man is concerned, he is by himself alone the image of God just as fully and completely as when he and the woman are joined together into one.

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  Taken, Men, Together

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• I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid loose? If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides, "Let him alone, let him do as he will, for he is not yet baptised?" but as to bodily health, no one says, "Let him be worse wounded, for he is not yet healed." How much better then, had I been at once healed; and then, by my friends' diligence and my own, my soul's recovered health had been kept safe in Thy keeping who gavest it.

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  Healing, Echoes, Soul

  "The Confessions of St. Augustine".

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• For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

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  Writing, Giving, Zenith

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• Singing is a lover's thing.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Singing

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• By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

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  Unity, Be Patient, Faithfulness

  "Footprints in Time: Fulfilling God's Destiny for Your Life". Book by Jeff O'Leary, p. 223, 2006.

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• The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

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  Men, Neighbor, Bounds

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• Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

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  Heaven, Rewards, Results

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• Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not as it is: because that even we, though the well beloved of thy Son, yet it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. He looked through the lattice of our flesh and he spake us fair, yea, he set us on fire, and we hasten on his scent. But when he shall appear, then shall we be like him, for we shall see him as he is: as he is, Lord, will our sight be, though the time be not yet.

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  Time, Son, Fire

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• And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.

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  Space, Light, Self

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