If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWhat 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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 measure of love is to love without measure.
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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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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