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

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

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As quoted in If God Be For Us : Sermons on the Gifts of the Gospel (1954), by Robert Edward Luccock, p. 38; this may be a variant translation or paraphrase of an expression in his 169th sermon: "He who created you without you will not justify you without you."

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