Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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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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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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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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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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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