Author: Saint Augustine

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

- Saint Augustine

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

- Saint Augustine

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

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

- Saint Augustine

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

- Saint Augustine

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

- Saint Augustine

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

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

- Saint Augustine

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

- Saint Augustine

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

- Saint Augustine

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

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

- Saint Augustine

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