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SAINT AUGUSTINEThere is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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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 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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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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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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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.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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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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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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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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