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 AUGUSTINERight is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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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 has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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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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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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