What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
SAINT AUGUSTINELove is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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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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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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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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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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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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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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Truth is not private property.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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