I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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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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