Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
SAINT AUGUSTINEUnderstanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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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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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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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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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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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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