If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIn the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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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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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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