The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINESymbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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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 loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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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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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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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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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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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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