Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
SAINT AUGUSTINEI was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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 the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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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 purpose of all wars, is peace.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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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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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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