Saint Augustine Quotes, Love You Quotes, Too Late Quotes

Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

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Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

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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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For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

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

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The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

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For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

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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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Understanding is the reward of faith.

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I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

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God without us will not as we without God cannot.

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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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O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heart and say to my soul, I am your salvation. Let me run toward this voice and seize hold of you. Do not hide your face from me: let me die so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed.

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Charity is the root of all good works.

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Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?

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I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.

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This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

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