He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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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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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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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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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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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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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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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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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