Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHeaven 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Truth is not private property.
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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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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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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 loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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