Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
SAINT AUGUSTINELife is a misery, death an uncertainty.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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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 measure of love is to love without measure.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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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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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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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.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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