Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
SAINT AUGUSTINEDo not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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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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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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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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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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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 cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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