We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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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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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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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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Truth is not private property.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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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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