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 AUGUSTINEHope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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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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Bad 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.
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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 greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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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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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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