Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
SAINT AUGUSTINEYou are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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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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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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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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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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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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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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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 denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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