Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
SAINT AUGUSTINEComplete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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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 Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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