What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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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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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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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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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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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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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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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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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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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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