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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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 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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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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