Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIn my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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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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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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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 made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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