God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
SAINT AUGUSTINELearn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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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.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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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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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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