To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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