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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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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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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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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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