Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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Truth is not private property.
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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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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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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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To sing is to pray twice.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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