Charity Quote by Saint Augustine

“Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.”

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Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

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The playthings of our elders are called business.

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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

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It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith…

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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

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Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

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“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.”

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Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so that they would wonder and be astonished at seeing not great but unusual things, who are unmoved by things daily seen. For the government of the world is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand…

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