Saint Augustine Quotes, Heart Quotes, Eye Quotes

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

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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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Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.

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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

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Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

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Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.

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Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.

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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

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Love God, and do what you like.

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Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.

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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

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Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

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Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

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Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.

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