We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod gives where he finds empty hands.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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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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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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