The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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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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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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