If you understood him, it would not be God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEBeware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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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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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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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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