We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
SAINT AUGUSTINESome people, in order to discover God, read books.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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 measure of love is to love without measure.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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