Saint Augustine Quotes, Humility Quotes, Foundation Quotes

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. 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. Modest humility is beauty's crown.

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Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

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Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.

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The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.

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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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In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

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What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

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What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

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If you understood him, it would not be God.

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Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

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Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

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We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

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We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

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The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

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Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

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The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

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