When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe speak, but it is God who teaches.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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Truth is not private property.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Love has reasons that reason knows 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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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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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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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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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