Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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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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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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He that is jealous is not in love.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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