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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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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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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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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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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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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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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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To sing is to pray twice.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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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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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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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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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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