Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEFor what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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