God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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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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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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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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Truth is not private property.
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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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