I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe that is jealous is not in love.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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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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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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