Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you understood him, it would not be God.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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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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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Truth is not private property.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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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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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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