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Augustine of Hippo on God

354–430

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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

The true servants of God are not solicitous that He should order them to do what they desire to do, but that they may desire to do what He orders them to do.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

God is best known in not knowing him.

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.

If you comprehend, it is not God.

For He is called omnipotent on account of His doing what He wills, not on account of His suffering what He wills not; for if that should befall Him, He would by no means be omnipotent. Wherefore, He cannot do some things for the very reason that He is omnipotent.

Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.

Disputed If God Be For Us : Sermons on the Gifts of the Gospel (1954)

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