God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
SAINT AUGUSTINEBad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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