In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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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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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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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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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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