Saint Augustine Quotes, Soul Quotes, Beloved Quotes

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

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Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

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Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

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If faith fails, prayer perishes.

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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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I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

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The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

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Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.

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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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

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Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.

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So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

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That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

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If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

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Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

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We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

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He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

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