Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHabit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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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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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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