The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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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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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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