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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEPut no faith in salvation through the political order.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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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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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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