Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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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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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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