If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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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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He that is jealous is not in love.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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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.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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