Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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Truth is not private property.
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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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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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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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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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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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