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"I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it."
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Source: Saint Augustine, F. J. Sheed (2007). “Confessions (Second Edition)”, p.110, Hackett Publishing
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