Saint Augustine Quotes, Past Quotes, Three Quotes

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

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Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

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It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

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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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Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

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We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.

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What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.

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He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from 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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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

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War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

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Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.

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I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

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The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

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You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

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Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

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God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

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