Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWhat are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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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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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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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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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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