Saint Augustine Quotes, Humility Quotes, Firsts Quotes

Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

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Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

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For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

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I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

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

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The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.

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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

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The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

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A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.

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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

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I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

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Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

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Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

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If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

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Except he be willing, man cannot believe.

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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

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When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?

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It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.

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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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What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.

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