We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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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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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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