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 AUGUSTINELove begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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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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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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