The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINEFaith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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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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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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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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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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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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