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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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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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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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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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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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