Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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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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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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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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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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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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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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