Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINEComplete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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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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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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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 provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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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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To sing is to pray twice.
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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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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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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Truth is not private property.
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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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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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