The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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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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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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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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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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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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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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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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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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