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.
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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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such 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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