In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
SAINT AUGUSTINEIndeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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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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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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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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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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