We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Truth is not private property.
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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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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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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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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 created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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