Saint Augustine Quotes, Believe Quotes, Soul Quotes

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

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

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The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

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It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

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Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

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Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face.

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He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

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When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

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Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

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Salvation is God's way of making us real people.

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No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

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The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

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Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

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Between urine and filth we are born.

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Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

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God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.

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It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.

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