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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.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Saint Augustine
Faith, God, Falling In Love

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Saint Augustine
Love, God, Jesus

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.

Saint Augustine
God, Faith, Believe

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.

Saint Augustine
God, Spiritual, Fire

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Saint Augustine
Love, Faith, God

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

Saint Augustine
Love, God, Spiritual

If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

Saint Augustine
God, Evil, Good God

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.

Saint Augustine
God, Soul, Body
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 277, 1895.

When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.

Saint Augustine
God, Blessed, Soul

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

Saint Augustine
God, Thinking, Imagine

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Saint Augustine
God, Philosophical, Lord

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

Saint Augustine
God, Blessing, Mind

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.

Saint Augustine
God, Lovely, Lovely Things

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.

Saint Augustine
Beautiful, God, Art
Saint Augustine (2014). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.4, Open Road Media

We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

Saint Augustine
God, Knows

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.

Saint Augustine
God, Work, Math

If you comprehend, it is not God.

Saint Augustine
God, Ifs
Sermon 52, 16,

He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.

Saint Augustine
God
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.1975, Aeterna Press

Every infinity... is made finite to God.

Saint Augustine
God, Faith, Hope

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