Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
SAINT AUGUSTINETrust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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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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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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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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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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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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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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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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