In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod gives where he finds empty hands.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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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 is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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