We speak, but it is God who teaches.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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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 who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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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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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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