The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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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 believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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