Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINESin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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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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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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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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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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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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