If you understood him, it would not be God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWhat 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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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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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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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