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Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

Saint Augustine
Answers, Findings, Unanswered

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Reason, Weak

All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.

Saint Augustine
Jesus, Suffering, Christ

God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

Saint Augustine
Blessing, Anxious

Love God, and do what you like.

Saint Augustine
God Love

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Advancement, Our Actions

We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.

Saint Augustine
Sin, Christ, Adore

Attract them by the way you live.

Saint Augustine
Way

To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.

Saint Augustine
Wisdom, Heart, Justice

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

Saint Augustine
Vices, Sin, Slave
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.599, Catholic Way Publishing

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Inspiration, Men

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

Saint Augustine
Speak, Teach

Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

Saint Augustine
Past, Medicine, Suffering

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.

Saint Augustine
Path, Walking

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

Saint Augustine
Running, Fire, Going Away
Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.138, Oxford Paperbacks

Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary

Saint Augustine
Jesus, Flesh, Mary

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Perfect, Catholic

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Saint Augustine
Falling In Love, Honor, Puff

Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

Saint Augustine
Prayer, Humility, Baptism
"Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects".

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

Saint Augustine
Order, People, Saving
"Sermon 18:2. On the Verse of the Psalm: God Will Come Openly". "Works of Saint Augustine, A translation for the 21st Century: Part III - Sermons, Volume I". Book by Edmund Hill, translation and notes by John E. Rotelle, p. 374, 1990.

The reward of patience Is patience.

Saint Augustine
Rewards

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

Saint Augustine
Life, Faithful, Asks
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 392, 1895.

Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

Saint Augustine
Weed, Clever, Hate

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

Saint Augustine
Skills, Catholic, Given

The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Pride, Hands

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