In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThere is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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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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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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Truth is not private property.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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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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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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