What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIn order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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