It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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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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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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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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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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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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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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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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