Saint Augustine Quotes About God
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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 world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.
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To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.
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If you comprehend, it is not God.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
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Every infinity... is made finite to God.
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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 withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.
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Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.
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We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.
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What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things.
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When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.
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God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.
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