Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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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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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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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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