Saint Augustine Quotes, Joy Quotes, Forever Quotes

Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

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Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

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Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

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Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

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Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

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There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

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The world's verdict is conclusive.

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Doubt is but another element of faith.

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O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

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He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

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Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

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

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Every infinity... is made finite to God.

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No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

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Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

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The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

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