“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
— Saint Augustine
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
— Saint Augustine
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God had one son on earth without
“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”
— Saint Augustine
Author: Saint Augustine
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Since love grows within you, so beauty
“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
— Saint Augustine
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What I needed most was to love
“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.”
— Saint Augustine
Author: Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience,
“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
Author: Saint Augustine
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of
“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.”
— Saint Augustine
Author: Saint Augustine
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O Lord, help me to be pure,
“O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.”
— Saint Augustine
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God loves each of us as if
“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
— Saint Augustine
Author: Saint Augustine
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Pray as though everything depended on God.
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
— Saint Augustine
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God loves each of us as if
“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
— Saint Augustine
Author: Saint Augustine
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