Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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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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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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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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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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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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