Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
SAINT AUGUSTINEFaith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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 keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Truth is not private property.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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