Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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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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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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Truth is not private property.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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