Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
SAINT AUGUSTINEPut no faith in salvation through the political order.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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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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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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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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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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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