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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you understood him, it would not be God.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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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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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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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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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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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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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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