If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINELove 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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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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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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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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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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 sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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