Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
SAINT AUGUSTINEUnderstanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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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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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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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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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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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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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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