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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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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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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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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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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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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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