To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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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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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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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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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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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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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