No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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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 has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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