Saint Augustine Quotes, Soul Quotes, Overcoming Quotes

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

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We speak, but it is God who teaches.

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I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

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Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.

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The reward of patience Is patience.

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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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The one who sings, prays twice.

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Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak.

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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

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Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

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...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

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The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

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Understanding is the reward of faith.

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It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

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There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.

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

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Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

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Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

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