Saint Augustine Quotes

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• Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.
• We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone
• And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and…
• You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'
• We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.
• Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to…
• God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more…
• We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.
• He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who…
• "Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole…
• Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He…
• I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
• God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
• Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the…
• I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.
• The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
• Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness…
• Poetry is devil's wine.
• Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of…
• One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we…

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