Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
SAINT AUGUSTINETo sing is to pray twice.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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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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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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