You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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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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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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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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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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