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Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with

Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?

Saint Augustine
Book, Eye, Order

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

Saint Augustine
Wish, Reason, Deny

Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.

Saint Augustine
Fall, Worry, Welcome

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Saint Augustine
Love, Art, Passion

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.

Saint Augustine
Mistake, Past, Needs

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

Saint Augustine
Men, Two, Forgiving

There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.

Saint Augustine
No Hope, Without Hope, Without Love
"Faith, Hope and Charity".

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine
Inspirational, Patience, Spiritual
"The De Patientia of St. Augustine: A Translation with an Introduction and Commentary" by Saint Augustine (of Hippo), Paul Bryan, 1963.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine
Love, Beauty, Wedding
"The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers". Book by Gregory Bergman, 2004.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Prayer, Procrastination

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

Saint Augustine
Trust In God, About Yourself

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

Saint Augustine
Christian Inspirational, Religion, Christianity

Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

Saint Augustine
Dance, Angel, Heaven

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

Saint Augustine
Hands, Always Trying, Giving

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Saint Augustine
Love, Smile, Break Up

In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Adversity, Anxiety

To sing is to pray twice.

Saint Augustine
Catholic, Praying, Classical Music

Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

Saint Augustine
Sin, Right Thing

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

Saint Augustine
Prayer, Praying

Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

Saint Augustine
Joy, Forever, Soul

Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.

Saint Augustine
Love Is, Roots, Speak

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Saint Augustine
Love, Faith, God

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

Saint Augustine
Lord, Teach, Knows

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

Saint Augustine
Baptism, New Life, Repent

If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Giving, Effort

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