Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
SAINT AUGUSTINEMiracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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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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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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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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