If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
SAINT AUGUSTINETake 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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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 measure of love is to love without measure.
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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.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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