For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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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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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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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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