The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHope 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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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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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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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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