Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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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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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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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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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 sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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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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