God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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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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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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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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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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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.
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Truth is not private property.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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