You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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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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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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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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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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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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