God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
SAINT AUGUSTINEI was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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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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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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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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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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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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