I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe 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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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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