If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINETo sing is to pray twice.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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 speak, but it is God who teaches.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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