Saint Augustine Quotes, Father Quotes, Order Quotes

Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.

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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

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No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

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If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

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The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

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His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

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He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

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In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.

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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

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Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

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They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

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This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

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For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

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The measure of love is to love without measuring.

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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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Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

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The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

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