Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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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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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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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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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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