No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINEChrist is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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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.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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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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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 what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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