Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWithout God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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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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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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