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 AUGUSTINEBeware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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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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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Truth is not private property.
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