Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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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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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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