I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
SAINT AUGUSTINEYou are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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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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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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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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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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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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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in 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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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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