I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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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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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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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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Truth is not private property.
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