In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEMiracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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What 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.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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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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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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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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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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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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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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