Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
SAINT AUGUSTINEPatience is the companion of wisdom.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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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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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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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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