If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it. Saint Augustine More Quotes by Saint Augustine More Quotes From Saint Augustine Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness. Saint Augustine healthy long believe Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained. Saint Augustine self-esteem believe lying And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments? Saint Augustine holy god-love spirit If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men. Saint Augustine forgiving men two Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do. Saint Augustine praying prayer Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities. Saint Augustine invisible powerful reality If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. Saint Augustine two-friends friendship hands That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become. Saint Augustine forgiveness hate love Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth. Saint Augustine inspiration faith men Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul. Saint Augustine adversity soul grace For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply "today." Saint Augustine yesterday mean years I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me. Saint Augustine homeschooling educational inspirational Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. Saint Augustine philosophical catholic perfect All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross. Saint Augustine suffering jesus christ Attract them by the way you live. Saint Augustine way If you don't believe it you won't understand it. Saint Augustine belief christian believe It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. Saint Augustine moral-responsibility unjust law He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. Saint Augustine philosophical freedom kings Love is ever new because it never groweth old. Saint Augustine love-is love Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation. Saint Augustine punishment medicine suffering
