Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
SAINT AUGUSTINEMiracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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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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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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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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 you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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