Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHabit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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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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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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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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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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