Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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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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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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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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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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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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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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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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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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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