We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Truth is not private property.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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