Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Truth is not private property.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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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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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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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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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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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