Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
SAINT AUGUSTINEUnderstanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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