If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
SAINT AUGUSTINESin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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 mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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