Saint Augustine Quotes, Understanding Quotes

Understanding is the reward of faith.

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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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O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

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For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

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You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

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When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

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Make friends with angels.

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Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

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For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

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Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

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Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.

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No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

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Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

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Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

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If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

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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.

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

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