God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
SAINT AUGUSTINEForgiveness is the remission of sins.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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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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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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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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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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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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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Truth is not private property.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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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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