Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIn the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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