Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
SAINT AUGUSTINETruth is not private property.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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To sing is to pray twice.
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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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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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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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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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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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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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