Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIt is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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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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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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 Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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