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

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

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

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

Saint Augustine
Giving, Saint, Needs

Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

Saint Augustine
Two, Giving, Catholic

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

Saint Augustine
Giving, Suffering, Needs

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

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

Saint Augustine
Children, Giving, Doe

Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

Saint Augustine
Giving, Able, Firsts

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

Saint Augustine
Voice, Giving, Tongue
St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 20-50”, p.168

God gives where he finds empty hands.

Saint Augustine
Hands, Giving, Empty

The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

Saint Augustine
Men, Giving, Heaven

We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

Saint Augustine
Giving, Interpretation, Ridicule
"'De genesi ad litteram libri duodecim' ('The Literal Meaning of Genesis')". Book by Augustine, Part I, www.newadvent.org. 415.

God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.

Saint Augustine
Omnipotence, Giving, Riches

God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

Saint Augustine
Faithful Servants, People, Giving

Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

Saint Augustine
Wise, Powerful, Giving

He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

Saint Augustine
Mother, Giving, Heaven

"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness.

Saint Augustine
Mean, Names, Giving

The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Giving, Perfect

Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

Saint Augustine
Giving, Poor, Command
"Sermon 61:13, On Almsgiving". "The Fathers Of The Church A New Translation Saint Augustine Commentary...". Book by Ludwig Schopp, Volume 11/3, p. 286, 1951.

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

Saint Augustine
Art, Giving, Worship

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

Saint Augustine
Giving, Chastity, Give Me
'Confessions' (397-8) bk. 8, ch. 7

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

Saint Augustine
Writing, Giving, Zenith

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

Saint Augustine
Begging You, Giving, Warning
St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 51-94”, p.148

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.

Saint Augustine
Giving, Zenith, Way

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

Saint Augustine
Giving, Needs, Stewardship

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