Saint Augustine Quotes, Space Quotes, Light Quotes

And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.

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They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.

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Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

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Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

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Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.

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The argument is at an end.

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Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

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For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

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God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

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Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

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The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

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Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

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