If you understood him, it would not be God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe speak, but it is God who teaches.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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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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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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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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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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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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