Saint Augustine Quotes, Religious Quotes, Eye Quotes

A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

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For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.

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...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

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Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

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The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic.

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No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

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Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

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Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.

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Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

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The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

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

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Tolle, lege: take up and read.

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Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

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Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it is right they should ... With you, where there is none of these things to attract or keep me... No one shall move me from the faith which binds my mind with ties so many and so strong to the Christian religion... For my part, I should not believe the gospel except as moved by the authority of the Catholic Church.

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Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

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Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

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If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

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