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 AUGUSTINEIn my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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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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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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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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