Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEMiracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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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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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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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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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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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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