If you understood him, it would not be God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWhere your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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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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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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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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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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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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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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