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 AUGUSTINEWe speak, but it is God who teaches.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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