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 AUGUSTINEPatience is the companion of wisdom.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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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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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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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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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Truth is not private property.
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