It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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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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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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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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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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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 are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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