To sing is to pray twice.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you understood him, it would not be God.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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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.
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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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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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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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