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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWhere your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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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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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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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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