Truth is not private property.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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.
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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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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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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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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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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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 fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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