Saint Augustine Quotes, Time Quotes, Ends Quotes

Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.

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True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

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For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.

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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

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War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

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Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

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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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Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.

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There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

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Love and do as you will.

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Between urine and filth we are born.

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We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

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God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

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In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.

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You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

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Love God, and do what you like.

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