In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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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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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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