The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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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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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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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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