For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
SAINT AUGUSTINELove 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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Truth is not private property.
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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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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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