Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINENo one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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If you understood him, it would not be 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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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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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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