If you understood him, it would not be God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIn the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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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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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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