In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
SAINT AUGUSTINESome people, in order to discover God, read books.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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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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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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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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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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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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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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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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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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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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