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 AUGUSTINEIn order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Truth is not private property.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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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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