Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
SAINT AUGUSTINELove is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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 endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Truth is not private property.
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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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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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