We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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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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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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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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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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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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