Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEBeware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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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 truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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