Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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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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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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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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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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