Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Truth is not private property.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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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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