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.
SAINT AUGUSTINETruth is not private property.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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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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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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