In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWhat 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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 believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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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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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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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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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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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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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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