The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
SAINT AUGUSTINEPut no faith in salvation through the political order.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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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.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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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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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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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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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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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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