God gives where he finds empty hands.
SAINT AUGUSTINEI was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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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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