What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you understood him, it would not be God.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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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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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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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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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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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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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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