Saint Augustine Quotes, Decision Quotes, Scary Quotes

Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

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No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

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Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

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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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The purpose of all wars, is peace.

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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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There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.

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You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

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I believe in order to understand

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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

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We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.

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Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

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When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

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God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

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God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.

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