No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you understood him, it would not be God.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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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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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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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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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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Truth is not private property.
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