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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.

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.

Saint Augustine
Forever, Catholic, Soul

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Saint Augustine
Faith, God, Falling In Love

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Saint Augustine
Love, God, Jesus

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Saint Augustine
Lions, Moral, Sanity

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Saint Augustine
Past, Equality, Saint

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Heart, Thinking

If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

Saint Augustine
Prayer, Heart, Desire

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

Saint Augustine
Life, Change, Beautiful
"Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy". Book by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136, 1988.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine
Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual
"Strive to Love, Anticipate with Hope, Believe in Faith". Book by Catherine Basten, 2004.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Saint Augustine
God, Faith, Believe

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

Saint Augustine
Kindness, Men

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
Love, Life, Sympathy
"Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

Saint Augustine
God, Spiritual, Fire

The measure of love is to love without measuring.

Saint Augustine
Love Is, Measuring

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

Saint Augustine
Character, Order, People
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.903, Catholic Way Publishing

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

Saint Augustine
Men, Wind, Sail

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Spiritual, Prayer
"Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things?" by Rick Hamlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Past, Mercy Of God

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.

Saint Augustine
Motivational, Faith, Time
"Sermons to the People". Book by Augustine of Hippo (Sermon 80:8),

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Angel, Pride
"Manipulus Florum". Book edited by Thomas Hibernicus,

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Religious

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Believe, Catholic
Saint Augustine, John W. Rettig (1993). “Tractates on the Gospel of John 28–54 (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 88)”, p.18, CUA Press

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Inspiration, Speaks Out

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Saint Augustine
Eye, Light, Advantage
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 607, 1895.

God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory.

Saint Augustine
Running, Lonely, Hero

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