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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEI was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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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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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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