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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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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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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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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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