God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
SAINT AUGUSTINELove has reasons that reason knows not.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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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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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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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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