Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
SAINT AUGUSTINEComplete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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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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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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