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 AUGUSTINEIf you understood him, it would not be God.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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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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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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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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