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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.

Saint Augustine

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Comparison Cost Obey
Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Dependent Family One Liner Peace Society
The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Body Command Instant Meet Mind Obey Resistance
Love has reasons that reason knows not.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Love One Liner Reason
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Hard Time Inspirational Live People Time
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Beware Command Despair God Trust Yourself
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Book Light Mind Reading Truth
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Beware Danger Devil Existence Hell Mathematics
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Believe Rejection Truth Yourself
Love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Beauty Love One Liner Soul
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Happiness Heart Pleasure Treasure
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 AUGUSTINE

Correct Goodness Growth Love Pardon Root Silence Speak
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Accomplishment Action Advance Glory Humility Value Virtue Work
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Dazzle Flory Inspirational Wound
Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Faith Politics
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Money Need Poor Receive

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