If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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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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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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