Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIndeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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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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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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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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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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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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