God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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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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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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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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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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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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