Saint Augustine Quotes, Doe Quotes, Littles Quotes

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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

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Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

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He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

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Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

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

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No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

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Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

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Attract them by the way you live.

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The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

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The verdict of the world is conclusive.

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What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

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Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

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It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

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Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

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Love has reasons that reason knows not.

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Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

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