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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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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 not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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