The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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 has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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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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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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