God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
SAINT AUGUSTINETake 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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To sing is to pray twice.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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