We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
SAINT AUGUSTINELove begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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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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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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