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.
SAINT AUGUSTINETwo criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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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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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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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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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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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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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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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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Humility 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.
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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 understood him, it would not be God.
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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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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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