We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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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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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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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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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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