Saint Augustine on goodness
Saint Augustine104 quotes“You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.”
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine 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.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine 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.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine God gives where he finds empty hands.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine 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.
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