To sing is to pray twice.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIn the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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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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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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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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