Saint Augustine Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Passion Quotes

There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

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Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

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The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

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By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

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Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

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Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.

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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

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For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.

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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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Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

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Your wisdom should be without pride.

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What do you possess if you possess not God?

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Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

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Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

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The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

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The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

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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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Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

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