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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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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