Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you understood him, it would not be God.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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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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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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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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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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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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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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