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.
SAINT AUGUSTINERight is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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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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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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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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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Truth is not private property.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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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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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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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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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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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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