Truth is not private property.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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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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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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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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He that is jealous is not in love.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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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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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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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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To sing is to pray twice.
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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 begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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