It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
SAINT AUGUSTINEComplete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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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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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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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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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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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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