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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

Saint Augustine
Love, Prayer, Light

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

Saint Augustine
Reflection, Silence, Looks

Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

Saint Augustine
Fighting, Temptation, Suffering

One loving heart sets another on fire.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Fire

Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

Saint Augustine
Brother, Believe, Trying

If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

Saint Augustine
Moving, Goal, Coaching

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

Saint Augustine
Discipline, Curiosity

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

Saint Augustine
Inspirational, Educational, Homeschooling

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Men, Perfection

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

Saint Augustine
Doe, Limits, Reason

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

Saint Augustine
Used, Idolatry, Ought

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

Saint Augustine
Progress, Delay, Resolve

Truth is not private property.

Saint Augustine
Truth Is, Property, Private Property

Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Christian Inspirational, Gods Will
"If God Be For Us: Sermons on the Gifts of the Gospel". Book by Robert Edward Luccock, p. 38, 1954.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Dark, Dwelling

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Saint Augustine
Errors, Humans, Devilish

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.

Saint Augustine
Cute, Two, Giving

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Clouds, Wish

Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Desire, Satisfied

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Saint Augustine
Inspirational, Nature, Philosophical

What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Good Life, Eye
Saint Augustine (2010). “The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)”, p.31, CUA Press

We should never use the truth to wound.

Saint Augustine
Life, Advice, Use

Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.

Saint Augustine
Lord, Captives

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

Saint Augustine
Men, Lazy, Noses

If you understand, it is not God.

Saint Augustine
Ifs

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