He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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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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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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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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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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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 who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Take 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.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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