He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIt was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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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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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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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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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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