What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWithout God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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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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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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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