What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe speak, but it is God who teaches.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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