It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHumility 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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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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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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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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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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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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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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