I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIndeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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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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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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