The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINEPray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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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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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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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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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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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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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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