Saint Augustine Quotes, Hurt Quotes, Self Love Quotes

You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

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It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

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What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

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If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

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Understanding is the wages of faith.

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Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

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Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

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A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, 'Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world'

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A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

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Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

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O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

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Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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Your wisdom should be without pride.

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Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

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The measure of love is to love without measuring.

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