To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIn my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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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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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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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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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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