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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe speak, but it is God who teaches.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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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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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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