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If you understood him, it would not be God.

Saint Augustine

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Love Philosophy
Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Dependent Family One Liner Peace Society
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Church Father God Mother
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Believe Faith Inspirational Reward Understand
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Angel Change Devil Humility Men Pride
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Dazzle Flory Inspirational Wound
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Guide Myself
In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Charity Essential Liberty Unity
Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Faith Politics
Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Finding God Trouble
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
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Believe Faith Reward
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Adversity Brave Cheer Endurance Love Moderate Prosperity Suffering
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
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

One Liner Peace Purpose War
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Anxiety Disorder Mind Punishment

If you understood him, it would not be God.

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