He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHope 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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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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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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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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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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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