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 AUGUSTINEPray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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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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To sing is to pray twice.
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