To sing is to pray twice.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHumility 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.
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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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 punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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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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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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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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