Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you understood him, it would not be God.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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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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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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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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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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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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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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