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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

Saint Augustine

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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Body Die Forever Future Live Soul Take Care
The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Eternity Gain Life Merit Positive Purpose
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Money Need Poor Receive
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Ansence Justice Organize Robber
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Defend Inspirational Lion Lose Truth
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Love Philosophy
We speak, but it is God who teaches.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God One Liner Speak Teaching
Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Lord
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Correct Goodness Growth Love Pardon Root Silence Speak
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Book Light Mind Reading Truth
Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Invisible Powerful Reality Sign Symbol Visible
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Dazzle Flory Inspirational Wound
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Forgiveness God Procrastination Promise Repentance
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Explanation Time
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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Future God Love Mercy Past Present Provide Trust
We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Die Ending God Immortal Live Mortal

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