Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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More Saint Augustine Quotes
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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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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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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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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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