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 AUGUSTINEThe truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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To sing is to pray twice.
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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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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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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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 is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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