Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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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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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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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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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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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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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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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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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Truth is not private property.
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