Saint Augustine Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Vanity Quotes

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

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Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

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What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

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I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

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By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

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Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.

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It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

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While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

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

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God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

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You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

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Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

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The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.

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To sing is to pray twice.

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Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.

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There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

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If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

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You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

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