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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIt is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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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 God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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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 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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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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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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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