If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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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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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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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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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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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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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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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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