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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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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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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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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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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 essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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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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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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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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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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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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