No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe that is jealous is not in love.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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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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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Truth is not private property.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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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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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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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