Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIt is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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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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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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