God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
SAINT AUGUSTINESin is Energy in the wrong channel.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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 truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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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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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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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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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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