Saint Augustine Quotes, Humility Quotes, Pride Quotes

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

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Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.

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

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We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

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Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

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There is no possible source of evil except good.

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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

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In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.

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There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

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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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God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

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For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply "today."

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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

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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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