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 AUGUSTINELife is a misery, death an uncertainty.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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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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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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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 Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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