Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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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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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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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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