Saint Augustine Quotes, Self Quotes, Cities Quotes

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

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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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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

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The world's verdict is conclusive.

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Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

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Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

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Give what You command and command what You will.

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The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

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The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

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Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

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To sing is to pray twice.

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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

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The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

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I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

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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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Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

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The measure of love is to love without measuring.

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So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.

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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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