If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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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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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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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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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