Saint Augustine Quotes

Love God, then do what you will.

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No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

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

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That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

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Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.

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Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

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A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.

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It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

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I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

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Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

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I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

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The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

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Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

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If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

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Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

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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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Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

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

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