We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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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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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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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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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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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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