We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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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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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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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Take 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.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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