Saint Augustine on compassion
Saint Augustine104 quotes“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine 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.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Love has reasons that reason knows not.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine 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.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine
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