Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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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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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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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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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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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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