In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
SAINT AUGUSTINEIt is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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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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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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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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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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