Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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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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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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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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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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