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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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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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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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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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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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 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 gives where he finds empty hands.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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