It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
SAINT AUGUSTINETwo criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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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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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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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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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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