If you understood him, it would not be God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWhere your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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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.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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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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