In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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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 sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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 loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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