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 AUGUSTINETake 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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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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To sing is to pray twice.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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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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