The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
SAINT AUGUSTINESin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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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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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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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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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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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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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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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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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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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.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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