What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIn my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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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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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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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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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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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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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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