Saint Augustine Quotes, Pride Quotes, Proud Quotes

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

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My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

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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 Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

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He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

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If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

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

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Christ was born of a woman without the man.

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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The argument is at an end.

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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

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For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

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If you understood him, it would not be God.

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Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

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Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

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Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

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The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word

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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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