The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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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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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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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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Truth is not private property.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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