Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
SAINT AUGUSTINEFor what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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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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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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