Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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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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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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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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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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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Truth is not private property.
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