If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
SAINT AUGUSTINELove is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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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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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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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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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on 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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To sing is to pray twice.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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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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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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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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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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