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 AUGUSTINEWhen God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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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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