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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Saint Augustine
Forever, Catholic, Soul

Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

Saint Augustine
Joy, Forever, Soul

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

Saint Augustine
Soul, Unhappy, Mortals

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.

Saint Augustine
God, Soul, Body
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 277, 1895.

Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

Saint Augustine
Truth, Soul, Purity

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.

Saint Augustine
Soul, Beloved, God Love

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

Saint Augustine
Adversity, Soul, Grace

When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.

Saint Augustine
God, Blessed, Soul

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Saint Augustine
Long, Soul, Doe
Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.151, OUP Oxford

Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak.

Saint Augustine
Believe, Eye, Soul
Saint Augustine (2014). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.4, Open Road Media

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

Saint Augustine
Life, Soul, Charity

If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.

Saint Augustine
Soul, Shut Up, Sin

If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

Saint Augustine
Love, Soul, Body
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.10514, Aeterna Press

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

Saint Augustine
Soul, Overcoming, Misery
Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.58, Oxford Paperbacks

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

Saint Augustine
Believe, Soul, May

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

Saint Augustine
Soul, Contentment, Elements

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.

Saint Augustine
Light, Soul, Needs
Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.69, OUP Oxford

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.

Saint Augustine
Vanity, Evil, Soul

The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

Saint Augustine
Taken, Perfect, Soul

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

Saint Augustine
Loss, Soul, Fortitude

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

Saint Augustine
Prayer, Practice, Soul

I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

Saint Augustine
Soul, Unhappy, Pieces

Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

Saint Augustine
Christian, League, Soul

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

Saint Augustine
Believe, Philosophical, Soul

I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid loose? If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides, "Let him alone, let him do as he will, for he is not yet baptised?" but as to bodily health, no one says, "Let him be worse wounded, for he is not yet healed." How much better then, had I been at once healed; and then, by my friends' diligence and my own, my soul's recovered health had been kept safe in Thy keeping who gavest it.

Saint Augustine
Healing, Echoes, Soul
"The Confessions of St. Augustine".

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