Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINEDo what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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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 Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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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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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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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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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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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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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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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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