If you understood him, it would not be God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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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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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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