It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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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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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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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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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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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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