Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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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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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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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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