Saint Augustine Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

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Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

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What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

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There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

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Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

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If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

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To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

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Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

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Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

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The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts.

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Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

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Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

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

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

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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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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

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The world's verdict is conclusive.

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Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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