For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
SAINT AUGUSTINEBeware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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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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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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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 my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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