Saint Augustine Quotes

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

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Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

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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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I believe in order to understand

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For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

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He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

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I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

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God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

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Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

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In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.

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

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This world's a bubble.

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There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

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If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

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O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

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What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

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The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.

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You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

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When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

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