In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
SAINT AUGUSTINEPeace in society depends upon peace in the family.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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