Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIn the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Truth is not private property.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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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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He that is jealous is not in love.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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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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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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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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