In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you understood him, it would not be God.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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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.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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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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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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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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