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• Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.

  Saint Augustine

  Jesus, Sleep, Angel

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

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  Path, Walking

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• It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. He does not want to be holy; he only wants to seem to be holy. He is more concerned with his reputation for righteousness than about actually becoming righteous. The approbation of men matters more to him than the approval of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Motivation, Hypocrite, Men

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• Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

  Saint Augustine

  Character, Men, Moral

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• The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

  Saint Augustine

  Beginners, Way, Mature

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.40, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

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  Vices, Sin, Slave

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.599, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

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  Weed, Clever, Hate

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• Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

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• Attract them by the way you live.

  Saint Augustine

  Way

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• Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

  Saint Augustine

  Skills, Catholic, Given

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• When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

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  Book, Opportunity, Imagination

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• Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

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  Used, Idolatry, Ought

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• Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

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  Life, Change, Song

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• So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

  Saint Augustine

  Begging You, Giving, Warning

  St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 51-94”, p.148

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• All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.

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  Jesus, Suffering, Christ

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• Beware of bad Catholics.

  Saint Augustine

  Catholic

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• You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

  Saint Augustine

  Running, Fire, Going Away

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.138, Oxford Paperbacks

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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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  Humility, Advancement, Our Actions

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• Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

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  Father, Watches, Steps

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• To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.

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  Wisdom, Heart, Justice

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• ...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

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  Humility, Effort, Doe

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• There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.

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  Sweet Love, First Love, Happy Love

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• For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

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  Order, People, Saving

  "Sermon 18:2. On the Verse of the Psalm: God Will Come Openly". "Works of Saint Augustine, A translation for the 21st Century: Part III - Sermons, Volume I". Book by Edmund Hill, translation and notes by John E. Rotelle, p. 374, 1990.

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• Love has reasons that reason knows not.

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  Reason, Knows

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• As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

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  God, Soul, Body

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 277, 1895.

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