Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWhen God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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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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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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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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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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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 purpose of all wars, is peace.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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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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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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