The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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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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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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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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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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