He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
SAINT AUGUSTINETo sing is to pray twice.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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He that is jealous is not in love.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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