You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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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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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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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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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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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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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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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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