God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
SAINT AUGUSTINELove 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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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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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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