Saint Augustine Quotes, Prayer Quotes, Knees Quotes

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

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If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

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Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

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If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

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Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul with the garment of faith? Remember each morning the truths of your creed, and look at yourself in the mirror of your faith. Otherwise, your soul will soon be naked with the nakedness of oblivion.

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Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.

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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

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You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

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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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Every infinity... is made finite to God.

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Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

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

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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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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

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For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.

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Singing is a lover's thing.

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