In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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