Saint Augustine Quotes, Faith Quotes

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

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If you comprehend, it is not God.

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God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

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Every infinity... is made finite to God.

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So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

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Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

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

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You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

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I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

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Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

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The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14).

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For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

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On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what it signifies, or about the greatness of the reality of which it is a sacrament. Your eyes are looking at bread and cup. This is the evidence before your physical sight. But your faith must be instructed concerning it- this bread being Christ 's Body and the cup containing His Blood. Though perhaps these words may be enough to initiate faith, faith must be further instructed in accordance with the Prophet's words: 'Believe that you may understand'

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