For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
SAINT AUGUSTINEI was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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