What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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