Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINEOur hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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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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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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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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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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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