Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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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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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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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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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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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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