Saint Augustine Quotes, God Quotes, Soul Quotes

As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

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Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

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Beware of bad Catholics.

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Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

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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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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

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Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

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Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.

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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

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For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

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Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?

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Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

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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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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

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In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.

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We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

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It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

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God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.

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