Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod gives where he finds empty hands.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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