He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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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Truth is not private property.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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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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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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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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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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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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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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