In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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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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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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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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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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