Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINEPray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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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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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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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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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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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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