To sing is to pray twice.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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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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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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