God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
SAINT AUGUSTINEFaith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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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 are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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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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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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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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Bad 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.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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