He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
SAINT AUGUSTINETrust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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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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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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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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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Truth is not private property.
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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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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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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