"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
Quotes by Saint Augustine
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
"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."
"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."
"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."
"The purpose of all wars, is peace."
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."
"It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels."
"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."
"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."
"He that is jealous is not in love."
"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."
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."
"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."
"Love is the beauty of the soul."
"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."
"He that is jealous is not in love."
"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."