Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
SAINT AUGUSTINESin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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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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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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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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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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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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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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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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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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