Saint Augustine Quotes, Poison Quotes

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

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Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby, according to their measure, and as it were by steps, the affections of the weak may be moved to seek those things that are above, and to leave those things that are below. But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, I am that I am; and, I Am has sent me to you."

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Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

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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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What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

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For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

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

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Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

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All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

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They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

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My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

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Singing is a lover's thing.

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They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

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Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.

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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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

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If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

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Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

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