The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you understood him, it would not be God.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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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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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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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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