Saint Augustine Quotes, Substance Quotes, Wickedness Quotes

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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The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

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Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not as it is: because that even we, though the well beloved of thy Son, yet it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. He looked through the lattice of our flesh and he spake us fair, yea, he set us on fire, and we hasten on his scent. But when he shall appear, then shall we be like him, for we shall see him as he is: as he is, Lord, will our sight be, though the time be not yet.

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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?

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Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

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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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Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

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The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

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

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The measure of love is to love without measuring.

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It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

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There is no possible source of evil except good.

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Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

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

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I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

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Make friends with angels.

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A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot

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