Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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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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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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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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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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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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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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