What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Truth is not private property.
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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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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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 mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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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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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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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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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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