No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe speak, but it is God who teaches.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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