I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe purpose of all wars, is peace.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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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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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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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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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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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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