It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
SAINT AUGUSTINENo one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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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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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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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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