God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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 are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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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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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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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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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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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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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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