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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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Hope 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.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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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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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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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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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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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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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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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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