In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEUnhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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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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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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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 my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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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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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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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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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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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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