Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINEOur hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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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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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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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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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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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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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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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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