Saint Augustine Quotes, Happiness Quotes, World Quotes

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

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I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

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I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within

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God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

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To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

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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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"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

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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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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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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

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He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

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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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All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.

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The playthings of our elders are called business.

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Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

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The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

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We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

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Between urine and filth we are born.

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None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

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You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

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