There is no possible source of evil except good.
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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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.
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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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