Saint Augustine Quotes

Things are solved by walking around.

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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

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The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

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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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Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

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O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heart and say to my soul, I am your salvation. Let me run toward this voice and seize hold of you. Do not hide your face from me: let me die so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed.

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O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

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One loving heart sets another on fire.

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So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.

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

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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

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For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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