Saint Augustine Quotes, Mean Quotes, Fate Quotes

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.

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Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

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Love God, and do what you like.

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I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

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Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

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Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

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For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

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If faith fails, prayer perishes.

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Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

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You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'

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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

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In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.

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God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

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I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.

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The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.

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