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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEFaith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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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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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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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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