Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThrough the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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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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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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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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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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