The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThere is no possible source of evil except good.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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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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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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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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Truth is not private property.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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