In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
SAINT AUGUSTINENo one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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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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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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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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