Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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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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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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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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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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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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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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