Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
SAINT AUGUSTINEFor what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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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