Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
SAINT AUGUSTINELearn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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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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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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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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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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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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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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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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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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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