It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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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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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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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