Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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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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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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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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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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