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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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

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Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.

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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

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And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

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The diversity of language alienates man from man

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This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

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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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You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

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There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.

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So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.

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We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

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If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

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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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If faith fails, prayer perishes.

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Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

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Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

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The Devil invented gambling.

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They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

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