If you understood him, it would not be God.
SAINT AUGUSTINENo one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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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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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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