It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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He that is jealous is not in love.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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