Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
SAINT AUGUSTINESin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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 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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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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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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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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