If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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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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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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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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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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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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