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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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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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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 greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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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 Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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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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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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