Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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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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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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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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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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