It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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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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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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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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