Saint Augustine Quotes, Humility Quotes, Firsts Quotes

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

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Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

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Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

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Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

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The one who sings, prays twice.

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You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

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Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.

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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

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The measure of love is to love without measuring.

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Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

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He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

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There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

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Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

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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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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

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When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?

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

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