Saint Augustine Quotes, Humility Quotes, Thinking Quotes

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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There is no possible source of evil except good.

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The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

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When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

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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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God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

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Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

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Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

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The argument is at an end.

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Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

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It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him,' but, 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit.' The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam.

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God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

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

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And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

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True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

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