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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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

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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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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.

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