Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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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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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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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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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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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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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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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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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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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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