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 AUGUSTINEGod gives where he finds empty hands.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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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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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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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 are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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