We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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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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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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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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