Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINESin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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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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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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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.
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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 that is jealous is not in love.
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