We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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