We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
SAINT AUGUSTINESin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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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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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’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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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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Truth is not private property.
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