It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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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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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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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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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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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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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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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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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