Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
SAINT AUGUSTINEBeware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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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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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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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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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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