Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
SAINT AUGUSTINEI want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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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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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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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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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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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