God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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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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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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To sing is to pray twice.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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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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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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