Saint Augustine
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“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” -Saint Augustine
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“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” -Saint Augustine
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“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” -Saint Augustine
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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.” -Saint Augustine
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“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.” -Saint Augustine
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“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” -Saint Augustine
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“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” -Saint Augustine
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“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.” -Saint Augustine
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“It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.” -Saint Augustine
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“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.” -Saint Augustine
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“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.” -Saint Augustine
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“Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.” -Saint Augustine
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“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?” -Saint Augustine
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“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.” -Saint Augustine
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“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.” -Saint Augustine
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“O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.” -Saint Augustine
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“Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.” -Saint Augustine
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“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.” -Saint Augustine
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“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” -Saint Augustine
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“My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.” -Saint Augustine
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“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.” -Saint Augustine
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“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.” -Saint Augustine
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