You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
SAINT AUGUSTINELife is a misery, death an uncertainty.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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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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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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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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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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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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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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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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