Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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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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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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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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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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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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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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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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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