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.
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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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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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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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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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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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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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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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