God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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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. Love and do what you will.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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