Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
SAINT AUGUSTINEDo what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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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 who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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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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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.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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