If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
SAINT AUGUSTINEBad 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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