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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

Saint Augustine

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Friendship Missing Want
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Complete Easy Moderation Perfection
In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Charity Essential Liberty Unity
He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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God Himself Love Positive
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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Future God Love Mercy Mistake Past
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 AUGUSTINE

Correct Goodness Growth Love Pardon Root Silence Speak
The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Body Command Instant Meet Mind Obey Resistance
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Fashion Hell One Liner
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 AUGUSTINE

Adversity Brave Cheer Endurance Love Moderate Prosperity Suffering
Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Lord Myself Teaching
We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Die Ending God Immortal Live Mortal
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Character Discover Love Observe People
Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Inspirational Justice Right Wrong
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Acceptance Believe Heaven Rational Reason Seek Soul
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Believe Creation Dependent Sin Sustain
If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Gift God Preparation Respond Slow

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

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