The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
SAINT AUGUSTINEFaith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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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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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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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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