The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIn the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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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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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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