The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIn my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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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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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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