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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

~Saint Augustine

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

~Saint Augustine

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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

~Saint Augustine

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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

~Saint Augustine

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

~Saint Augustine

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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

~Saint Augustine

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God is best known in not knowing him.

~Saint Augustine

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

~Saint Augustine

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

~Saint Augustine

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