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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.

Saint Augustine

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Goodness Hands Receive Try
We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Future God Love Mercy Mistake Past
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Anger Beautiful Courage Daughter Hope
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 AUGUSTINE

Adversity Brave Cheer Endurance Love Moderate Prosperity Suffering
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Accomplishment Action Advance Glory Humility Value Virtue Work
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Correct Goodness Growth Love Pardon Root Silence Speak
He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Himself Love Positive
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Explanation Time
The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Body Command Instant Meet Mind Obey Resistance
Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Heart Religious Rest
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Love Philosophy
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Guide Myself
Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Contrary Miracle Nature
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Believe Rejection Truth Yourself
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

One Liner Peace Purpose War
Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Lord

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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