Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
SAINT AUGUSTINELove has reasons that reason knows not.
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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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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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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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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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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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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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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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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