Saint Augustine Quotes, Night Quotes, Treasure Quotes

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

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AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

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If you understood him, it would not be God.

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Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden.

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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

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

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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

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What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

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Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

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The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

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Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

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

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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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Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

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