Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
SAINT AUGUSTINETo fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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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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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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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