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.
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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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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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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To sing is to pray twice.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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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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Truth is not private property.
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