If you understood him, it would not be God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they 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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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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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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