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.
SAINT AUGUSTINETo sing is to pray twice.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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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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Truth is not private property.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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