The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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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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