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 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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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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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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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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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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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Truth is not private property.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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 who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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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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