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.
SAINT AUGUSTINESome people, in order to discover God, read books.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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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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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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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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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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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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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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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.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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