Tag: Saint Augustine
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Saint Augustine
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call ‘Christian’ the true religion which existed before.
Saint Augustine
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint Augustine