The purpose of all wars, is peace.
SAINT AUGUSTINETwo criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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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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Truth is not private property.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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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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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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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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