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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe that is jealous is not in love.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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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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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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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 Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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Truth is not private property.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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