In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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