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 AUGUSTINETo sing is to pray twice.
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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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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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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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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