What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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