If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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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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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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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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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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.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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