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 AUGUSTINEHumility 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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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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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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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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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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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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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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Truth is not private property.
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