What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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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.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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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.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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