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If you understood him, it would not be God.

Saint Augustine

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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Gift God Preparation Respond Slow
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Explanation Time
I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Anxiety Friendship Lost Misery Overcome State
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Future God Love Mercy Past Present Provide Trust
We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Future God Love Mercy Mistake Past
The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Body Command Instant Meet Mind Obey Resistance
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Believe God Prayer Work Hard
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Religious
Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Faith Politics
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Church Father God Mother
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Friendship Missing Want
Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Heart Religious Rest
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Character Discover Love Observe People
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Consent Creation God Help Save
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Decision Earthquake Errupt Love Madness Temporary
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Comparison Cost Obey

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