Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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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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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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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 you understood him, it would not be God.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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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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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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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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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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