We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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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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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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