God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
SAINT AUGUSTINESin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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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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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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