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.
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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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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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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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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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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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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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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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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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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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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